Re: [opensuse] opensuseupdate setuid problem

davidr wrote:
The opensuseupdater icon always shows a yellow triangle, hovering over the icon reports

error :
helper program returned
setuid operation not permitted
forget to chmod this program?

anyone any idea as to how to fix this?

At least the error message is very helpful. :-) You have chosen secure
for your security model instead of easy, which changes the permissions
of /usr/sbin/zypp-checkpatches-wrapper. You need to add
"/usr/sbin/zypp-checkpatches-wrapper root.root 4755" to your
/etc/permissions.local file (make sure you end this line with an enter,
i.e new line). Then run SuSEconfig. This makes the fix permanent,
otherwise the perms would be reset by SuSEconfig.

--
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64





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