On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 12:22:05 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> > > permissions wall. > > SHOW. US. > > > > I got tired of fighting with it Greg, so I did install #32 and installed > > gnome_desktop (that was new) and xfce4 during the install, and > > now things including the screen colors are back to normal, > > > > I've installed the brother printers and scanner drivers and I can modify t > > them by the usual rules. I also set a root pw in addition to adding myself > > to /etc/group in the appropriate places. I created an /sshnet tree with the > > other 5 machines here, did a root chown -R me:me on that path and just now > > mounted all of them as me, so I own the path to me on the other 5 machines. > > "adding myself to /etc/group in the appropriate places" sounds just > like the sort of thing that might have caused /etc/passwd to become > screwed up in installation #31.
"...appropriate places" is about as fuzzy as it gets. The user appears to have been put is group lp. This is completely unwanted as it opens up a security hole. Thank goodness the OP is not managing my machines (or my TV reception capabilities :) ). -- Brian.
