Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: attachments issue

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > Note, if I go to the
> > > > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/<folder name>/cur
> > > > and open the mail file,
> > > You're running evolution as root!!
> > Not for sure. The OP could use this path for a user too.
> No he couldn't, at least not if his installation is at least minimally
> sane.

+1 It would require dark arts to make a non-root user with a home
directory of "/root".  And you'd be in clear and blatant violation of
the LINUX file-system standard documents.

And while the 'user name not care' some components may deliberately and
specifically refuse-to-run as root, or behave differently.  It is
inverse Nike: Just do not do it.



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Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA