Please help with permissions problem

From: Scott Ehrlich (scott_at_ehrlichtronics.com)
Date: 01/31/04

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    Whenever I install a new Debian Woody system, create a normal user
    account, then log in as that user, some X-based (and maybe some non-X, but
    I don't recall right now) programs work fine, while others require sudo
    access.

    One example is Mozilla via apt-get. I discovered kword works fine. I
    performed a permissions and owner/group comparison of mozilla-1.0.0 to
    /usr/bin/kword and found both to be the same. What actually happens is I
    start Mozilla with just typing mozilla, for example, and it will try to
    start, then fail. Another example is X. I set KDE as my window manager,
    type startx, and get a warning in the standard X background before the
    window manager kicks in that KDE does not have permission to write to
    /home/scott/.ICEauthority and get dumped back to my tty console. I redo
    this with sudo startx and all works fine.

    What am I missing?

    I would love to finally know the solution, as I am likely going to convert
    my home setup to Debian w/X from Windows. Learning the answer will also
    let me fix the same issues for people at work who have installed Debian on
    their laptops.

    Thanks for any pointers.

    Scott 

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