Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Doug Reich
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:34:48PM -0400, Doug Reich wrote: Since we're already off topic... No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as the public_html directory has 755 permis

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/20/05 21:34 CST: > No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a > system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as > the public_html directory has 755 permissions, everything will work > fine. The 0700 on the h

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:34:48PM -0400, Doug Reich wrote: > > Since we're already off topic... > > No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a > system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as > the public_html directory has 755 permissions,

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Doug Reich
writability is needed. Perhaps there is a public_html dir. 0700 on /home/username would kill it. Since we're already off topic... No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as the public_html di

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:17:16PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Yup. But the OP requested a method to set 0700 on his home dirs. > This is what I thought the thread was about. Not debating the need > for 0700. True enough, but just throwing it out there for completeness sake, especially since

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 09/20/05 21:11 CST: > Perhaps there is a public_html dir. 0700 on > /home/username would kill it. Yup. But the OP requested a method to set 0700 on his home dirs. This is what I thought the thread was about. Not debating the need for 0700. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:26:05PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > I mentioned this earlier, but this thread won't die so I'll mention > it again. Can't one simply set up a rule in /etc/default/useradd? Not having looked at the code, but relying on what is in /etc/default/useradd, useradd -D, an

Re: Window Manager Transparent Move/Re-size

2005-09-20 Thread Brandin Creech
> > But my question is about the non-opaque ("transparent") mode, in which > only > > an outline is shown. The problem I have is that in every WM I've seen > with > > this mode, the WM seems to freeze all other applications during the move > or > > re-size operation. When I let go of the mouse, the

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Brandin Creech wrote these words on 09/20/05 20:23 CST: > That assumes the last argument given to useradd is the username. I think this > is the only correct way to specify it to useradd, anyway. I mentioned this earlier, but this thread won't die so I'll mention it again. Can't one simply set up

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Brandin Creech
--- "Peter B. Steiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:33 -0700, Brandin Creech wrote: > > umask 0077 > > mkdir /home/username && > > useradd -m username > > Every time you add a user? That would get old real fast if you expect > to add more than 3 users. True. But you can

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Lennon Cook
Peter B. Steiger wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:33 -0700, Brandin Creech wrote: > > umask 0077 > > mkdir /home/username && > > useradd -m username > > Every time you add a user? That would get old real fast if you expect > to add more than 3 users. This is why we have shell scripts. :) -- Le

Re: Window Manager Transparent Move/Re-size

2005-09-20 Thread Craig Colton
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:07 am, Brandin Creech wrote: > This is a general question about the move/re-size behaviour of every window > manager I've seen under Linux. Most of them support "opaque move/re-size" > in which the contents of the window is updated continuously during a move > or re-

Xorg Problems

2005-09-20 Thread Lennon Cook
I have compiled Xorg on a fresh LFS system, using the package user hint, and have two major problems - the first (which I also had on Gentoo many months ago, and never could fix there - it *didn't* happen on my previous LFS) is that once X starts, killing it or trying to switch back to a TTY freeze

Re: Search bar in Firefox not working

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/20/05, jlh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and I once thought that setting --enable-extensions=all is a good > thing. I later then set it to --enable-extensions=default, default is for the mozilla suite (basically). If you want to be sure about the extensions for firefox, look at the file mozi

Re: Packet filtering/XFree problem

2005-09-20 Thread Andrew Benton
Cliff McDiarmid wrote: Hi I'm trying to set up a simple firewall following the instructions in BLFS-6.1. I've enabled the options in the kernel: Network Packet Filtering -> IP: Netfilter Configuration before installing iptables. When when rebooting the new kernel, XFree86 hangs as the sys

Packet filtering/XFree problem

2005-09-20 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Hi I'm trying to set up a simple firewall following the instructions in BLFS-6.1. I've enabled the options in the kernel: Network Packet Filtering -> IP: Netfilter Configuration before installing iptables. When when rebooting the new kernel, XFree86 hangs as the system goes into kdm. The f

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:33 -0700, Brandin Creech wrote: > umask 0077 > mkdir /home/username && > useradd -m username Every time you add a user? That would get old real fast if you expect to add more than 3 users. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: Search bar in Firefox not working

2005-09-20 Thread jlh
> 2. Do NOT change the extensions you compile in. The list of extensions > in the configure script is absolutely non-negotiable. Just take what > BLFS and the FF mozconfig file suggest (which should be the same). D'oh! That effectively was the problem. Well, that'll teach me to think to know bet

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:31:01PM +0200, Dan Osterrath wrote: > > Then I suggest > install -m700 -o -g /home/ && Won't that give an unknown user/group error? Afterall, the user doesn't exist before useradd. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Osterrath wrote these words on 09/20/05 15:31 CST: > Then I suggest > install -m700 -o -g /home/ && > useradd -m Of course. Dumb me. (you did leave off the -d switch, though) :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release versio

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Osterrath
Randy McMurchy schrieb: >>umask 0077 >>mkdir /home/username && >>useradd -m username > install -m700 -d /home/username > useradd -m username > chown username/usergroup /home/username (this was added) Then I suggest install -m700 -o -g /home/ && useradd -m signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

Re: XMMS has no available output plugins

2005-09-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Michael Kipper wrote: Hi again, I'm building XMMS on an amd64. I have ALSA, aRts and EsounD installed, and am running KDE, where all the system sounds are working just fine. I've (apparently) successfully compiled XMMS, but I cannot play any files in it. When I go to the p

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Brandin Creech wrote these words on 09/20/05 14:33 CST: > So, here's what I suggest: > > umask 0077 > mkdir /home/username && > useradd -m username I don't have time to research it, but couldn't a rule be set in /etc/default/useradd? BTW - The instructions above could be made simpler by this: i

Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)
When I create a new user # useradd -m the user's home directory is created with a bad set of permissions. (drwxr-xr-x) Where do I set the default permissions for home directories? I'd prefer 700 (wrx--) for the home directories. - Joe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/bl

XMMS has no available output plugins

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Kipper
Hi again, I'm building XMMS on an amd64. I have ALSA, aRts and EsounD installed, and am running KDE, where all the system sounds are working just fine. I've (apparently) successfully compiled XMMS, but I cannot play any files in it. When I go to the preferences, the input plugins listed are: Tone

Re: Problem with Expect

2005-09-20 Thread Julien Demoor
On my system, tclInt.h is in /usr/include/tcl8.4/unix/tclInt.h I don't know how it went to the wrong place. It's fixed now. Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: samba3030 on lfs

2005-09-20 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Greetings, > > > I am attempting to compile samba3.0.20 on an LFS-based installation > and compilation fails everytinme (regardless of the configure > options).I get the folowing message: > > compiling dynoconfig.c gcc dynoconfig.c no such f

Re: the first three days at LFS [was : A question about house keeping]

2005-09-20 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Monday 19 September 2005 20:06, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > > > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories. > > > > Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I o

Re: Problem with Expect

2005-09-20 Thread Andrew Benton
Julien Demoor wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Expect 5.43. Several errors happen during compilation, the log is attached to this message. I have tcl/tk 8.4.11. How can I fix this ? Thanks. Julien Demoor gcc -p

Re: Window Manager Transparent Move/Re-size

2005-09-20 Thread David Lyne
Hi Brandin Creech wrote: I've only come across one vague explanation to this. Something about there not being any efficient way to implement the transparent move or the outline without pausing other applications. Does anyone here know of a WM that can manage this feature without freezing other a