Re: adding gconfd permission check to sanity check
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
- Cc: gconf-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: adding gconfd permission check to sanity check
- Date: 19 Apr 2002 11:05:40 -0400
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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