Hi Ben, nice to hear from you! OK having (I believe) set the sticky bit:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ls -al /usr/bin | grep vmware
-r-sr-xr-t 1 root root 4570 2008-04-02 11:45 vmware
i continue to get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vmware
exec: 180: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: Permission denied
In fact, this is the same error regardless of whether sticky bit is set
or not. Or perhaps I mis-understand what I am supposed to be doing. In
other words, if I have done what you suggested correctly, this hasn't
solved the issue.
Cheers,
Roger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the suid sticky bit.
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:02:44 +1300, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good morning. I took the bait of the minor upgrade available from
VMWare Server to go up a massive 0.01 to 1.05, downloading their tar
file and running the install script. The installation went fine and VMs
run and behave as usual. However I am no longer able to use a KDE menu
or Autostart entry to launch the application, the only method I have
found so far is to launch manually via command line thus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware -l
[sudo] password for roger:
which is a pain and obviously not good practice. Without sudo I get
permission denied which seems to be contrary to my understanding of the
permissions in that I have execute rights:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ls -al /usr/bin | grep vmware
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4570 2008-04-02 11:45 vmware
Yes, yes, I know, use Adept - and I'm really bad. It's only offering
1.04, sure I could remove 1.05 and go back a release but it's the
learning for me. How can I create a desktop icon command that doesn't
require the use of sudo? I know the "right click the desktop, create
new, link to application" bit, and /usr/bin/vmware as the application
command doesn't do it.
Thanks for any pointers!
Roger
