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@ xavier666 @lemm.ee

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Just another Reddit refugee

  • PSA: Not all applications use environment variables (Like they are supposed to)

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  • That is a good point. But I remember launching the application from the terminal where I explicitly set the env variables as null. Still it didn't work.

  • Simple Bash Script To Always Disable Laptop Internal Monitor When Using AR Glasses

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  • Agree.

    However, I always have those "trivial" conditions be explicitly set. Usually, when the device is unplugged correctly, your primary display will be automatically be turned on. However, in very weird scenarios (incorrect voltage signals, loose wire, etc), it's possible that the explicit else condition will be triggered.

  • Simple Bash Script To Always Disable Laptop Internal Monitor When Using AR Glasses

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  • What about the condition that when the external display is disconnected, the main display should be reenabled?

  • Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?

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  • You should check out the super old website called "cooking for engineers".

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • You can have a perfect distro on a USB which boots into Linux automatically when inserted into your PC and it preserves all your files and favorites. Still it will hardly increase the market share by 1 or 2%. It's because a super minority of people will bother to get the USB drive.

    The core issue we have to understand is "availability of preinstalled Linux on PCs in brick and mortar shops". Till this is solved, we won't get market share. The only reason people are using Linux on their SteamDeck is availability.

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • My brother in Christ, do you think an average person knows what BIOS/boot menu are?

  • Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy is Where I’m Staying

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  • It's some sort of proprietary peer to peer algorithm

    I completely lost interest for the project at this point of the text

  • I fucking hate modern design and modern designers.

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  • I remember using it first on Google Talk. Good days.

  • Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

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  • Firefox: "But I'm nothing without Google money"

    FOSS community: "If you're nothing without Google money, then you don't deserve it."

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • Issue resolved!

    It was swhkd. Thank you very much for your insight and extremely detailed response!

     
        
$ ls -l $(which swhkd)
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2583192 Mar 10 17:16 /usr/bin/swhkd

    Since we know what's causing it, can you make a "guesstimate" of what it's doing? Why are other applications are getting infected by it? And why is a keybind manager affecting permissions?

    I will raise an issue on their github. The project is already looking for maintainers.

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • How do you open the shell inside sway? Keyboard binding from sway config? Launcher? Which terminal? Do any of the involved programs have setuid root bit set (looks like rws instead of x in ls -l output)?

    I think you may have just pointed me to the correct direction.

    My keybinds setup is a bit weird. I'm using swhkd instead of sway's built in keybinds. swhkd is a setuid binary (https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd?tab=readme-ov-file#running) which might be causing the issue. I'll quickly disable swhkd and check if the issue is resolved. Will keep you posted.

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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$ which sway
/usr/bin/sway

$ sway --version
sway version 1.9

$ file $(which sway)
/usr/bin/sway: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=70fe358f7e410f618ad8a9ce0e573ed6826b2e75, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

$ ls -l $(which sway)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 600352 Apr  1  2024 /usr/bin/sway

    id pre and post login

     
        
uid=1000(xavier666) gid=1000(xavier666) groups=1000(xavier666),0(root)
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uid=1000(xavier666) gid=1000(xavier666) groups=1000(xavier666),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),120(lpadmin),132(lxd),133(sambashare)

    A funny thing; I think this has nothing to do with gdm. I have gdm disabled now and launching sway directly from the terminal and the issue still persists.

    The problem goes away (xavier666 becomes part of sudo like expected) when I type exec su - xavier666 for that terminal session only. If I open a new terminal, it problem reappears. I'll just in case check if zsh/omyzsh is doing something funny.

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • I found something interesting, thanks to my friend

    • I removed the fix mentioned above. Now user does not have sudo access inside sway
    • I ran the command exec su - xavier666. It asked for my user password and the command was accepted.
    • My groups output looks normal (xavier666 is now part of sudo) and my permissions are fine
    • However, the problem reappears after a reboot

    It is as if this user is an imposter with incorrect privileges 📮

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • I did it. The issue still lingers. Check my last comment for output.

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • Great suggestion. I tried this method just now.

    Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same bug.

    The main difference between the two sessions is the output of the groups command

    In pure tty

     
        
$ groups
xavier666 adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare

    The moment I enter into sway from inside the tty

     
        
$ groups 
xavier666 root

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • !lemmysilver

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • The output of the above command is nearly the same for me.

    Even though I have manually added myself to /etc/sudoers file, my groups output is very weird. It's just xavier666 root

    Kind of stumped here.

  • [SOLVED] Weird root permission issue on Sway which is not present in i3

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  • user-IDs (prefixed with ‘#’)

    And I thought it just meant a comment.

    Thanks for this, I had no idea.