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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfig question
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-31 7:48:45
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Running as root is rather hairy. E.g. you get files saved and owned by root 
and then later programs fail when running as user because they can't make 
changes to these root-files any longer.

There was an idea floating around for "desktop settings" published via 
X-window properties that would solve a great deal of the look&feel problem 
but that hasn't gone anywhere. 

Cheers,
Waldo

On Monday 29 October 2001 08:24 am, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> Hi Waldo,
>
> I wonder if you can make another change to KConfig. Yesterday I wanted to
> configure KDM (which is run as root) when it finally occurred to me why
> kdesu based apps are so incredibly ugly: user root obviously doesn't use
> your own preferences... And since I have never run KDE as root I got
> stucked with the default settings.
>
> It made me wonder... it is not that hard to pass kdesu the directory of the
> user's .kde dir so every user sees kdesu modules in his own style, even on
> multi-user systems. But at the same time that would be a huge potential
> security hole, since any KConfig values are passed to root, which can lead
> to numerous exploits. OTOH, you need to know the root password to make use
> of it anywa, but still...
>
> Do you have any ideas on how this (might) be solved? To a user this is
> incredibly ugly and it should be somehow possible to pass on this info
> safely, but how?

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