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and subject line Can't open preferences file "($HOME)/.ethereal/preferecnes":
Permission denied under sudo
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Permission denied under sudo
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Package: ethereal
Version: 0.10.13-1.1
Severity: important
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It appears ethereal under sudo can no longer save its preferences file.
It gives an error that reads:
Can't open preferences file
"/home/anthony/.ethereal/preferences": Permission denied.
And indeed, strace shows:
open("/home/anthony/.ethereal/preferences", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,
0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
Ethereal is running via sudo to root, and root surely should have
permission to write to that file. Did ethereal drop that capability?
Perhaps it should open the prefs file before doing so?
Not being able to save preferences has a pretty serious impact on being
able to use Ethereal.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages ethereal depends on:
ii ethereal-common 0.10.13-1.1 network traffic analyser (common f
ii libadns1 1.1-4 Asynchronous-capable DNS client li
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpcap0.8 0.9.4-1 System interface for user-level pa
ii libpcre3 6.4-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages ethereal recommends:
ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su
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Version: 0.99.8-1
Seems to work fine under this version.
Joost
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