On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:04:53PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Ah hah! sudo chown -R david:david ./config/.openoffice.org and all is well. > For some reason starting as root while su root caused the > ./config/.openoffice.org directory to be created under root UID & GID. Doesn't > seem like it should have done that. Usually even if using su or kdesu the > configs still go under /root not the current user. Strange ... If you need a real root shell you must give the -l option to su. Try this: $ su Password: and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised? Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root. bye
