> > I've checked the most annoying bug list, and I may > have missed it, but I ran across something which is > kind of scary to me. > Now, I have been off of windows for three years > now, > but I still can't seem to shake the paranoia that OS > instills in its users. I, a simple, end user, really > don't have the expertise to explain as to what > caused > this bug so I will explain the entire series of > events > which brought me up to me discovering the bug, a bug > which caused my user desktop to act as if I was > logged > in as ROOT!...please bare with me it is quite > long...I > hope not to annoy any power users. > > Ok let me give you some background, my wife bought > me > an HP pavillion dv6208nr a few months back, I never > really used it, and maybe on the fourth time I > booted > it I noticed that the thing couldn't even complete > the > most basic of tasks without seizing, even > configuring > the darn thing for performance didn't show much of > an > improvement. > Of course, not being one addicted to redmond's > code > I installed openSuSE 10.2 and everything worked on > it > just fine, I of course had to do the usual, > installing > video drivers (nvidia) libdvdcss, getting the > wireless > (802.11 broadcom) up and running. > > Ok first I updated via wired lan, once finished, I > used ndiswrapper to get the modem going, for some > reason the xp driver .inf file came up as invalid > driver when doing it via command line. > So before I went to fwcutter, I had seen an app in > my > smart channels called dnisinstall, well I ran it, a > prompt (non system) came up asking for my root, then > it ran a prerequisite check before connecting to the > internet and downloading whatever it was that I > seemed > to need (perhaps firmware as is the case with > fwcutter > or most recent version of ndiswrapper) either way, > other than zen or smart, rkhunter, etc I NEVER > connect > to the net while in root...I have no idea what it > ndisinstall downloaded. > > Ok so that fails to get my wireless up, I run -e > with > ndiswrapper and do the command line again and it > worked!! I am online wirelessly now. > > Next, it was time for the libdvdcss and nvidia > drivers, I had them on a memory stick so I moved > them > to my home directory and double clicked them to get > the > the option of installing with yast, I installed all > three one by one. Then when launching kaffiene I > noticed I forgot to install the win32 codecs so off > to > smart i go...I click on smart and it starts with no > root prompt. I then click on yast and again, no root > prompt. I click on console and type rkhunter, it > runs, I type SuSEconfig and it runs!! It was > halloween > so maybe my SuSE was actually a were-linspire distro > and the full moon caused it to change... > > sorry poor humor there. but there it is, up until a > reboot the thing acted as if I was in root!! > of course I was able to duplicate the bug by > installing an rpm via yast.
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