Re: adding gconfd permission check to sanity check

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le ven 19/04/2002 à 17:05, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> 
> 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.

Bug 79244

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Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft