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On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 6:04 am, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi all folks
>
> I encountered problem in using 'sudo'
>
> # epm -q sudo
> sudo-1.6.7_p5
>
> # sudo -u satimis kmail
> trying to create local folder: Permission denied
> failed to create /root/.kde/socket-mymachine
> kdeinit: Aborting. No write access to $HOME directory <root>
> ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication
Is there a particular reason why you need/would like to run kmail as root?
Sudo lets you run a process as suid root, but it specifically doesnt allow you
to write to root owned files and directories (with the permissions set
sanely) as it would be a security problem.
> # ls -l /root/.kde/
> total 1
> drwx ------ 2 root root Autostart
> drwx ------ 10 root root share
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root socket-mymachine -> /tmp/ksocket-root
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root tmp-mymachine -> /tmp/kde-root
Yes, the symlinks have '777' permissions, but /root/ wouldnt (shouldnt.!).
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Mark
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