How do you do that? If I try to install Mozilla as a user, I am not
permitted since it wants to install to /usr/local/mozilla and in a normal,
basic setup, users are not permitted to write to or alter /usr/local
directories or files. It is not an option to install it into my home
directory, I want the browser to be usable to any and all users and it is
horrendously inefficient to require that each user install their own copy of
Mozilla. As a result, I always install it as superuser.
If I try to install the PSM as a user, it fails because it wants to place the
PSM into /usr/local/mozilla/psm, a non-user-writeable directory. The only
way I have been able to install the PSM is as superuser. I must then change
the permissions on the /usr/local/mozilla/psm directory to be user
read-writeable or PSM wont work for users (and attempting to open up the PSM
as a user locks up Mozilla - so far for every version since 0.6 that I have
tried UNLESS /usr/local/mozilla/psm is set world read-writeable).
Last I checked too, the PSM is no longer downloadable. The site that I would
be directed to for downloading it now says that it is built into current
releases and I don't get a link for downloading.
I have more recent source for mozilla now and will try building and
installing that, but I don't yet see how this will fix the problems unless
the default permissions of the psm directory are auto-changed by doing this.
I will be building as user but to install the binary I must be superuser
(again, so I can install to /usr/local/mozilla)...
On Friday 22 December 2000 06:12, you wrote:
> On 20 Dec, Pete Jordan wrote:
> > Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I have reinstalled Mozilla 0.6 and am trying to make it work with
> >> secure web pages. I tried installing the PSM but am not permitted as a
> >> user to do so, so I did it as root.
[...]
> > No problems here, but I build Mozilla from CVS and never install it. You
> > might be best off picking up a new nightly distribution as PSM is now
> > built with Mozilla so (with any luck) it will work out of the box.
>
> Uhm.. not quite. I get nightly builds once in a while. You need to get PSM
> separately. There's an option for this under one of the menus.
>
> I usually install it as myself so I don't have all these permission issues.
> I think the reason this occurs is because plugins are no longer stored in
> eac user's directory.
[...]
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Praedor
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
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