On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:57:38PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Monday 09 November 2009 17:18:28 and regarding: > > and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised? > > > > Well it's me! Yes, you are half root, half david; kde will create its directories in /tmp/ksocket-david, /tmp/kde-david, /var/tmp/kdecache-david but owned by root. Boom. > > Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root. > > > > Good words of wisdom to live by :-) And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926 in that case the permission problems affected the system directories. And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling pacman with sudo.
