This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

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>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions

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>this and the next problem were caused i think after i did a chown -R
>salmona /ghoti/*
>
>/ghoti is not my home dir and it *shouldnt* have anything but programs
>etc..

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>[salmona@:/root]$
>[salmona@:/root]$ su
>Password:
>setgid: Operation not permitted
>[salmona@:/root]$

What is on this /ghoti directory?  Sounds like you've made a typo and
chown'd your whole filesystem to be owned by salmona.  Hence all your
suid programs are now running suid salmona, not suid root.

-- 
      <Nanotech> we go to school to make friends .. to drink beer with
(o_ - <Nanotech> some go to school to get a peice of paper that says they
//\   did really well at school and because of this the rest of us laugh
v_/_  and wont drink beer with them


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