Cannot Start Release Candidate 1.1

lurker55 · Red Pill Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi Support

My second post of this problem. I have downloaded and installed the release candidate 1.1 and it will not start. I get the following message:

/Applications/NeoOfficeJ.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice.bin: running as root user is not allowed

I have run permissions check from disk utility and all apperar OK. I have "opened" the permissions on the executable with no luck (it is owned by root). I run my laptop as user root and the previous version of NeoOffice worked just fine. I am running OSX 10.3.8 with latest security patch. Any ideas?

Cheers

Lurker55

Guest · Guest

You may already know this but 'System' is also considered 'root.' Have you tried to change owner to your_user_name instead?

lurker55 · Red Pill Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi Guest

Thanks for the reply. The executable is owned by root:

drwxr-xrwx 3 root admin 102 7 Apr 10:14 NeoOfficeJ.app

I run as user root on this system. I should, being root and the executable being owned by root, be able to execute the application. I did not have this issue with the "beta" version of the release candidate. Additionally, I opened the app (rwx) for world access with no resolution to the start problem.

Cheers

Lurker55

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

lurker55 · Red Pill Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi Pluby

Thanks for the response. I am so sorry to hear this from you as I have enjoyed the beta issues of this product and have been running them as user root. I find it troubling that the executable will corrupt library files when run as root and the solution is to disallow running as root. There are some of us OSX users that run as root and I personally find it a pain to switch users just to run one application. I recommend that this release candidate go back to beta untill this issue is resolved.

Cheers

Lurker55

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

not to talk security, but running as root is not a good idea. (/understatement)

lurker55 · Red Pill Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi Pluby

I did read your response and I did not mean to upset you. When in the GUI, I like to click on a file and have it open in the proper application. Using sudo or su - will not do this. I could work around this by writing a wrapper for NeoOffice and I may consider this later. This is not a problem to me. Like I said, I'll use OO.org which I have had no problems with and I will continue to watch the development of this version of the OO.org application. I still say that if there is a problem with NeoOffice (even if it is in the OO.org code) corrupting files when run as root, this should be fixed. This is not a problem as far as I know in SOffice 7 and I have had 0 issues in OO.org and the beta versions of NeoOffice with files getting corrupted or changed and I run some very complex spreadsheet based tools from Sun Micro in both OO.org and the beta NeoOffice with no problems.

Thanks for the info and best of luck with your continued development efforts on NeoOffice.

Cheers

Lurker55

lurker55 · Red Pill Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi JakeOSX

I agree that admining a production server by logging as root is not too smart. As far as I am concerned, using sudo is the only acceptable method of implementing super user privlidges in that scenario. On my laptop, I am not as concerned. I understand the risks and am willing to do this on my laptop for the convience.

Cheers

Lurker55

ovvldc · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: