A note or two for posterity. It was pointed out that other applications are typically run as root the first time and may have similar issues, and would this approach be appropriate for those as well. I only remember seeing one such case before. I don't recall what it was, but I think it had something to do with using my tv tuner card. Anyway, it was different in that the app complained loudly that it couldn't write to its dotfile, so it was simple to diagnose and fix. Vim fails silently here, making it much more difficult. Also, this is only appropriate for vim because it's depended on by ubuntu-minimal, so the change will benefit the first user because vim (and therefore the skel file) will already be on the system. This exact approach might not work or be appropriate for other similar situations.
-- vim should populate skel/.viminfo so ownership is not affected by initial sudo https://launchpad.net/bugs/58002 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
