[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #448: All files should be owned by root, and writable by all

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#448: All files should be owned by root, and writable by all
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Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
    Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
Priority:  major     |   Component:  LiveDVD                  
Keywords:            |  
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 Stefan Hansen wrote:

 Hi all!

 I played in the last couple of days a bit with generating an ISO-image
 from the VM and ran into a few problems.

 One of them is that some install-scripts change the owner of some files
 outside $HOME to "user". Unfortunately this doesn't go well when you
 boot from the LiveDVD. The original "user" is deleted, when the ISO is
 generated, and a new user is created during the boot process (apparently
 that is the way things have to be). Files that belonged to the old
 "user" belong on the LiveDVD to the uid=1000, but the new user has the
 uid=999. Therefore, the new user cannot write these files and some
 applications won't work (so far I had problems with Geoserver and
 Degree, but I haven't tested all applications). So Instead  of changing
 the owner of a file or directory, please keep root as owner and just
 change the access permissions. If you do so, please only change the
 write-permissions of a file only if you really, really have to. AFAIK
 everything writable is loaded into the memory, when you boot from the DVD.

 cheers,
 stefan


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 Stefan Hansen
 Software Engineer
 LISAsoft

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/448>
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