10 Nov
2009
10 Nov
'09
12:16 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:57:38PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 17:18:28 and regarding:
and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised?
Well it's me! Yes, you are half root, half david; kde will create its directories in /tmp/ksocket-david, /tmp/kde-david, /var/tmp/kdecache-david but owned by root. Boom.
Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root.
Good words of wisdom to live by :-) And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926 in that case the permission problems affected the system directories.
And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling pacman with sudo.