Thunderbird permissions

pongmaster · 09-01-2004, 12:59 PM

I can't get Mozilla Thunderbird to run as a user.
It'll run as root no problem.
When I try to open Tbird from Konsole as a user, I don't get any error messages at all, just get dumped back to a prompt.

I'm sure this is a permissions thing, but I'm not exactly sure where to begin as I've never encountered this problem before.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

david_ross · 09-01-2004, 03:06 PM

Try setting the permissions on the installation location with:
chown -R root:root /path/to/thunderbird
chmod -R 664 /path/to/thunderbird
find /path/to/thunderbird -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

pongmaster · 09-01-2004, 04:20 PM

Hmmn. Now I get an error 'permission denied' - both as user and root.

Code:

# chown -R root:root /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
# chmod -R 664 /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
# find /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
$ mozilla-thunderbird
bash: /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird: Permission denied
# mozilla-thunderbird
bash: /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird: Permission denied

So what to do now?

david_ross · 09-01-2004, 04:26 PM

Sorry my mistake - I wasn't thinking application folders just chmod 755:
chmod -R 755 /path/to/thunderbird

pongmaster · 09-01-2004, 04:35 PM

Code:

# chown -R root:root /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
# chmod -R 664 /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
# chmod -R 755 /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
$ mozilla-thunderbird
$

Still opens for root though.
This is

Harnic · 09-04-2004, 01:23 AM

I don't know if this will help, but I didn't need Thunderbird in root, so I installed in my user home directory & all is good...

JonEberger · 09-04-2004, 11:42 AM

I have a similar issue. chmod 777 doesn't really help, the file permissions are all changed to read, write, and execut, for all groups, but i still can't run them from the other groups.

frustrating.

pongmaster · 09-04-2004, 05:01 PM

JonEberger: Yeah, I'm pretty much where you are. Checked and double checked TBir'ds permissions - got read/write for all groups, but yet it still only runs as root.
Think I'm going to re-install, and maybe the latest version too and see what happens.