On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:54:45PM -0500, Randy Chrismon wrote: > >>>>userhelper must be setuid root > >Might also give a clue. Try verifying the usermode RPMs. > >rpm -V usermode > >rpm -V usermode-gtk > What am I looking for here? Both are installed; I'll have to do a man to > find out what the .M....G. means before the listing. >From the 'rpm' man page -- the "M" means the 'mode' (a.k.a. file permissions) have changed. And, as the first error message above indicates, this binary needs to be setuid root -- that is, owned by root and have the setuid file permission. Have you run any scripts to "secure" your system? An overzealous [1] security sweep could very easily choose to remove that bit.... (The "G" is also a little bit disturbing -- it means the group ownership has changed, and on my system, it's in group "root". Odd for that to change.) [1] given some definition of "over" -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
