On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:20:36AM -0800, JB wrote: > Greetings All - I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and running > into Bug 282674. > > The gist of the problem is that if I change the > system's file permissions to be 'secure', then the > OpenSuSE update applet fails with a yellow warning > triangle. Bug report 282674 confirms that the updater > requires setuid privileges for certain functions. > > In my naivete, I tried to set the opensuseupdater to > setuid (root) just to see if that would take care of > it. That did not work. I got a message stating: > > "The KDE libraries are not designed to run with suid > privileges. > ERROR: Communication problem with opensuseupdater, it > probably crashed." > > I'd like to know if there has been a fix for this? or > if you're using a temporary workaround?
Yes, do not use opensuseupdater in secure mode, or make zypp-check-patches.wrapper also setuid in /etc/permissions.secure Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
