Well, of _course_ if you are running as root and doing stuff in the
user's directory any files you create are owned by root.
The real solution: don't do that.
The real fix after you've done it: in the same directory,
chown -R user.user .
For user "user".
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Hi !
|
| I just ran into an annoying problem. I logged in as a normal user
| but I had to "su" (I didn't want to open another console). I typed the
| password an voila' ! After that I started KDE and doing the
| administration trough GUI. I logged out and wanted to start X in the
| name of user. But it didn't start just gave me the message that the
| user didn't have write permission to /home/username/.Xauthority
| file. I hit the CTRL+C twice and I was able start KDE. And the
| xauth was right: I didn't succeed to do any changes on my desktop
| including Language and keyboard section. After that I checked the
| owner of the file is root:root . The same thing happened with MD6.1
| on my mother's machine. I deleted the user and the problem
| solved. But that's not a _real_solution_ ! Second time the I got the
| message after a minute : xauth: timeout in locking the file
| /home/username/.Xauthority . Another CTRL+C and KDE worked. I
| just wondering is there a _real_ solution and what caused this.
| Thanx,
| Ago
|
| "If you love somebody set them free..."
| Sting is GPL fan :-))
| A hivatalos magyar KDE oldal : www.kde.hu
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