Filepro on Centos 8

[Fairlight]

A very quick and dirty test is to copy the `id` binary to the same
directory as the filePro binaries as `fid`, chown filepro fid`, 
`chmod 4711 fid`, and see what `fid` says.

If it doesn't pick up the SUID bit, then it's a system issue.  If it
does pick up the SUID bit, then it's a filePro issue.

Smart money says it's catching the SUID bit just fine, and it's
something to do with filePro.  That said, the test is begged before one
goes bin diving for the cause of the problem.

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On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 02:37:13PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> I thought that a primary rule was to never run anything as root.
> 
> Why would you want/need to run your filePro application as root? Why not
> just as a regular user?
> 
> All that said it is strange that 'root' cannot see the files, specially
> since once you enter the filePro environment (run the binaries), you should
> be "virtually running as filepro" regardless of user code.  Am I mistaken?
> 
> Have you tried running `setperms`?
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/1/20 11:58 AM, Josh Mattingly via Filepro-list wrote:
> > We are installing Filepro on Centos 8 and we have manged to get most
> > everything to work.  There is one problem we are having that doesn't
> > make any sense.  While logged in as root we can't access any filepro
> > files.  It tells us that There are no filePro files in /appl/filepro. 
> > Any other user we are able access filepro fine. We thought it might be a
> > path issue at first but root has the same paths as any other user. 
> > Anyone else ever have this issue?
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
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