Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/07/2014 23:31, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 17/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: >>>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>>> On 16/07/2014 18:45, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>>>> easiest way to test: new user. Copy over config files until problem >>>>>> occurs. >>>>> <doh> >>>>> Yes of course, that's the best way. Didn't think of that >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I just did my KDE upgrade so I renamed the .kde4 directory. I logged >>>> in, set up enough that I could test things and then logged out. When I >>>> logged back in, it worked like it should. Let's see how long that lasts. >>>> >>>> Alan, make sure you change the permissions on those file. I have a test >>>> account that I rarely use as well. In the past, I had to change the >>>> owner from dale to dale2 which is my account names. Usually the group >>>> is the same so the owner is all that needs changing. >>> Why change the permissions? They must be rw for the user using them >>> which means chmod 6xx, the group being entirely irrelevant as it will >>> never be referenced. If the new user is doing the copy then they will be >>> owned by that new user anyway. "cp -a" will just always do the right >>> thing in this case :-) >>> >>> >> Well, I usually copy as root which leaves the permissions the same. >> Since you do it as user then you are right. > > DO NOT DO THAT COPY AS ROOT. That's just needlessly > asking for trouble. > > Do it as the destination user, as long as it can read the source user's > home dir it all works out fine. Group membership is usually sufficient > and the only case where it's an issue is if home dirs are set to > rwx------ or encrypted > >
I always have a Konsole open as root. I never have one open as a user. I been doing it that way ever since shortly after I started using Linux. I got tired of having to switch from one user to another every time I wanted to do something. If I am root, I can copy from wherever I want to wherever I want. Once it is done, I can fix permissions if needed. It also means I can run whatever command without having to see who I am logged in as first as well. Dale :-) :-)
