9 Mar
2019
9 Mar
'19
10:34 a.m.
On Friday 08 March 2019 18:46:47 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 08 March 2019 21:27:11 William Morder
wrote:
[...]
You might want to look into that permissions
problem. Are you
generally able to run programs as root?
Generally, what need root, works as root, so I don't THINK theres an
ownership problem.
> Somebody else may want to jump
> in here, as I've never had issues about changing my KDE3 or TDE menus.
>
> Is your system is set up for multiple users? That would be a reason to
> restrict permissions on such items.
>
> Bill > [quoting:]
> No, each user should be able to edit his own menu; if he can't, there's a
> permission problem.
> Dan Youngquist
I rather thought so, but I don't deal with multiple users; except on rare
occasions, that is, when I use other people's computers, or public computers.
No, not real users although I do run some things as their own user just
for sandboxing.
Interestingly looooooong list of root owned stuff, all dated Juner 17
2016, which is the date I installed wheezy IIRC.
gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l
7927
And while I know it only takes 1 to screw it up, 7927 files here in
my /home/gene directory does sound excessive.
Thanks Bill
Cheers, Gene Heskett
We have yet to resolve the issue, although that does sound like a long list.
Don't thank me too soon.
Bill