April 9, 2009. Debian 5.0 i386
While adding myself to the scanner group using menu
'System/Administration/Users and Groups' I noticed root was also listed. So I
selected it and selected the button to view its properties. Clicking the tab
"user privileges" I see that root has no privileges selected. Next, I select
the tab 'Advanced. Here I see that root's home directory is '/home/root'.
Also.. root's default shell is '/bin/bash'. After viewing this.. and exiting
by clicking 'OK', lots of things don't work anymore.
'SU' works in a user shell but after jumping into the 'root' shell the command
'nautilus --browser' doesn't work.. nautilus can't locate the non-existent
directory /home/root.
Synaptic won't work. gksu doesn't work. Gedit doesn't work from the root
terminal prompt. They have problems with the missing home directory. The
system is compromised.
Ref:
Bug #198172 reported
by Corinne Toure
on 2008-03-03
(Activity log)
Bug #198172:
at https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/198172
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523180
Observe: The fix has not propagated to my Debian 5.0 Lenny gnome. So,
corrected the root home directory manually back to /root via the menu. Upon
re-entering the same menu 'System/Administration/Users and Groups' the home
directory for root is now corrected and correctly displayed in the first panel.
Going again to the properties/advanced tab for root, the menu''s logic has
again filled in the home directory as /home/root. Cancelling out of the
menu's advanced panel aborts saving the suggested directory. Whether it's
important or not the suggested fix will not correct the root home directory
back to /root if it is at /home/root when installed, right? It has to be
manually corrected. .. Ok, carry on.
regards,
Erv Bendiks
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