am able to run firefox off console as SU, but not as user...

Lechium · 07-31-2004, 11:55 PM

Hi.
I had d/led firefox from slackwares website, and use installpkg to install it. Now if i type 'firefox' in console in SU mode it will run just fine, but if i'm in normal user mode it wount run... why?

Cedrik · 08-01-2004, 01:00 AM

Because of permissions problem. Try to locate your firefox dir then look if it has permissions to read (and maybe execute too) for other user than root ( rwxr-xr-x ).

Lechium · 08-01-2004, 04:23 AM

i did chown [username] /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.2 however it didnt chnage the situation for the better
what is happeneing?

Cedrik · 08-01-2004, 07:10 AM

what about chown your_user ~/.firefox if it exists and try to search more firefox files in your system, locate firefox

also what is the output for :

find /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.2 -uid 0 -perm 700
find /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.2 -uid 0 -perm 600

Nikon01 · 08-01-2004, 07:55 AM

little help on finding files:

touch /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
updatedb&
slocate firefox

slocate has yet to fail me. If you already know about that well then I'm just useless huh?

aeNeo · 08-01-2004, 02:35 PM

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Andrew Benton · 08-01-2004, 02:57 PM

To just chown the firefox directory is not enough, you have to do it recursively,
chown -R username /path/to/firfox
that way it descends into the firefox folder and changes the permissions on every file. After you've run Firefox once and it's created your profile, chown it back to root, you don't want to be browsing with a browser you can write to.
chown -R root:root /path/to/firefox

Lechium · 08-01-2004, 03:19 PM

recursing chowning worked, thanks.
however creating a profile (i even had set the setting folder to me in user folder) and giving firefox back to root didnt' do much.
can i set it so user can read but not write? or that is the default?

Brane Ded · 08-01-2004, 03:25 PM

Users should be able to read the directory by default. Try "chmod -R go+r /path/to/firefox"

That will give read permissions to pretty much everybody. It's good to keep directories under the ownership of root, so you don't accidentally nuke them one day. So keep it under root:root, and to make sure you can't write to it, "chmod -R go-w /path/to/firefox"

Cedrik · 08-01-2004, 04:41 PM

Directories need to be executable as well (chmod +x)