On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 20:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >and he suggests that this works for him, except of course, when it > >> >doesn't work for him. > > Still correct :-) If it doesn't work for root, who then is it going to > work for? ---- without auditing all of the code, who would know if there weren't some blocks in place when superuser has hold of some of the processes? ---- > And when your train of thought isn't disturbed by having to > sudo for everything you need to do, it really does seem like its the > lessor of two evils to me. ---- you can su - to root in a shell ---- > It occurs to me that I should copy the .kde > directory to /home/gene, chown -R gene:gene ./kde and see if I can > function as gene. What else would I need to do? ---- You ***might*** want to be selective about what you actually copy from /root/.kde - i.e., instead of copying the entire folder, why not just /root/.kde/share/config/kdemailrc and /root/.kde/share/apps/kmail and leave the rest behind? Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
