On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Eben King wrote:
> Anyhow, changing the ownership of /usr/lib/vmware/win2000/* to me fixed
> the problem. Thanks. I don't know how it got changed. Probably improper
> tar usage.
Most likely VMware was doing something that needed root privs, and then
reverted to your UID to do "everything else" (so that you couldn't do
nasty things like use /etc/passwd as a virtual disk, as a totally
hypothetical example).
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