On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 05:55:04PM +0200, David Martín wrote: > I'm not sure if this is to be considered as a bug or if it is
It definitely is not a bug, merely a user misunderstanding. > just an «unfortunate coincidence». In case it's of any use I > will report: > > I am an active user of mc. After a fresh install of GNU/Linux > (mostly Ubuntu flavors) my first steps look like > > $> sudo apt install mc > $> sudo mc -or- sudo mcedit whatever.cfg > > This leads to mc creating a config folder in the first-user home > directory owned by root. Later, when getting into everyday routines > I realise about it (no history, no clipboard-file-copies are > allowed to me) and I have to «sudo chown -R ...» to fix it. You need to understand what sudo(1) does with the environment. When invoked as you did, $HOME is not changed, so mc does as you describe, as would any other user software which wants to create a config file or directory. You might be interested in sudo's "-i" option. But that too is a tradeoff; if you have set anything you like in your own ~/.local/share/mc, it won't be applied, because mc would look for the one in /root. In the future if you have a question that actually pertains to mc, please post to the users' list, "m...@gnome.org". It's very low traffic, most of the time, so don't worry about that; go ahead and subscribe. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject: _______________________________________________ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
