From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NozA2-0001zm-29 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:07:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A641E0C4A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f191.google.com (mail-iw0-f191.google.com [209.85.223.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC499E0BCC for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn29 with SMTP id 29so3088874iwn.10 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uJL2jHjbxah8SRaGhOyqKVLktU16BtKGW74AUopVgR8=; b=QZbJOW5XZ4I8NYTNEBEbNfawwiEBewLI4nui+ACzuwN3VfHGXyWsKLn3hLl27FrdwQ 4SkISv1MKRcke8SvWuEWzpkchBfdlKL+zY0gXZ+kC+9SwzeokD2KhSuxuW28BXIWt6zM tqL2Roy1Nihnr9N6iVAZy0h43NzphgyZPhuQA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rFdJ0Mxeb/1W5Rr+oosytXEFoQAn/BOTpDB/S3WIksSnJHmFE8b/ZLi+GB/k/6swh4 OdGdEd7pN543YiDzmHMNikb71CTnGaA8GJiVaE4JwmxekAriXhdSFU8Us9B3eXjmqulI TuipTFaBcgx1t6LN8tWc0iTHZ+hCXM7fvhY20= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.154.207 with SMTP id p15mr180509ibw.91.1268137889539; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003090324t6ba279c6vb8035fd60017e4e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <53e35fd51003090314w250da861la064a57c73703160@mail.gmail.com> <358eca8f1003090324t6ba279c6vb8035fd60017e4e7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:31:29 +0800 Message-ID: <53e35fd51003090431y569a091fvfe3d58c9b61d6ff@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things From: Xi Shen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1bc2b5f6-2d64-40ef-9c5c-c84697c7d4a2 X-Archives-Hash: dd3a6fac07f686dd381ee1166aa0dfe0 On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote: > > You only have yourself to blame I'm afraid ... > > When you login to xorg using a root account some configuration files > become owned by root. =C2=A0A normal user can no longer access them. =C2= =A0Most > desktops should be clever enough to allow users to create their own > configuration files in their home directory - but I am not sure how > you have yours set up. > if kde created configuration file when i log in as root, it should only create the configuration files for my root, and should not affect other users. so i guess those issues are not specific to kde, and my account do not have access to those resources any way... --=20 Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/