Re: adding gconfd permission check to sanity check



Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com> writes: 
> I had many bug reports about people who tried to run GNOME applications
> as root, using a simple 'su' go gain root privilege who can no longer
> use GConf correctly => this is caused by GConf daemon which was run with
> root permission but with HOME=user_home. Therefore, .gconfd directory is
> owned by root and users can no longer have a working gconf when logging
> as simple user..
> 
> I think a check to .gconf and .gconfd permission/owner should be added
> to sanity check .. 

Good idea. Also we should be ignoring $HOME...

Should probably go in bugzilla or I'll forget.

Havoc



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