<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">April 9, 2009. Debian 5.0 i386<br><br>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. <br>'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. <br>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. <br>Ref: <br><p class="object timestamp">
Bug #198172 reported
by <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/%7Ecorinnegospel" style="background: transparent url(/@@/person) no-repeat scroll left center; padding-left: 18px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Corinne Toure</a>
<span title="2008-03-03 22:47:41 UTC">on 2008-03-03</span>
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Bug #<span>198172</span>: <br></a></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;">at https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/198172<br>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523180<br></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>
</span>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. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Upon re-entering the same </span>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. <br>regards,<br>Erv Bendiks<br></td></tr></table><br>
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