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Hi guys,
I have installed Dbeaver in /opt from a tar downloaded from the official site.
Unfortunatly, i can't change the params in Dbeaver's preferences because the file dbeaver.ini in /opt/dbeaver is only writable by root.
Can I make a chown myuser:myuser dbeaver.ini ?
Is it dangerous for security ?
Should i better make that command on the folder /opt/dbeaver ?
Should i instead make a chmod 777 on the file ? or on the folder ?
In a general manner, what is recommanded when i manually install some programs in /opt and i need the conf files be writable by non root users ?
Thanks you very much.
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I have installed Dbeaver in /opt from a tar downloaded from the official site.
dbeaver is in the official repos. Install it from there.
i can't change the params in Dbeaver's preferences because the file dbeaver.ini in /opt/dbeaver is only writable by root.
So edit the file as root? sudo is your friend.
Can I make a chown myuser:myuser dbeaver.ini ?
Is it dangerous for security ?
One could argue about security but it's a bad idea anyway.
Should i better make that command on the folder /opt/dbeaver ?
Should i instead make a chmod 777 on the file ? or on the folder ?
No! Especially the chmod 777. NEVER EVER do chmod 777.
In a general manner, what is recommanded when i manually install some programs in /opt and i need the conf files be writable by non root users ?
Why would you need the conf files to be writable by non root users?
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I'll update the DBeaver package in community in the next hours. Actually is pending in the community-testing repository for some bugs in Excel export feature.
Stay tuned, in the meantime avoid to use the tar.gz package to install in /opt, it would cause you greater troubles later when you'll update the package from Pacman.
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Actually dbeaver works fine with JDK/JRE < 11.
In the case someone could help with Java dependencies from maven: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/issues/4593
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Fixed by backporting the DataTypeConverter class.
DBeaver 5.2.4 in community-testing repository, compatible also with JDK/JRE 11.
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