On 18/07/2014 11:48, Dale wrote: > 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.
So why do you have a user dale at all? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
