Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

[jbaerbock]

As you can read on an earlier post regarding a Dolphin problem (permissions were set to root instead of everyone) I seem to be having permission problems.

My second problem came up when I decided to look at my virtual desktop preferences. It told me that the file /home/jbaerbock/.kde/share/config/kcdmshell could not be saved to because I had insuficient permissions. Well I changed that in a hurry but why on earth would files like that not be writable? I mean really I would like to config my desktop without having to change permissions on every single config file.

[Rog131]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

Reset ownership of the files to your user:

From Topic: Konqueror Browser Can Browse Only as ROOT by claydoh
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3084031.0

sudo chown -Rv <insert-username>.<insert-groupname> /home/<insert-username>/.kde

Reset all files to you.

[jbaerbock]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

Very usefull thanks. Question is will Kubuntu retain this? The previous thread about Dolphin fixed it only temporarly because not to long later premissions reset themselves to root so again I had to modify permissions.

[Rog131]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

Question is will Kubuntu retain this? The previous thread about Dolphin fixed it only temporarly because not to long later premissions reset themselves to root so again I had to modify permissions.

It could be. I tried to install Dolphin 0.82 (default is D3lphin 0.9), but it has same problem:
0.92 : Unable to save bookmarks in /home/USER/.kde/share/apps/d3lphin/bookmarks.xml
0.82: Unable to save bookmarks in /home/USER/.kde/share/apps/dolphin/bookmarks.xml

Bug #136458 in dolphin
dolphin not able to save bookmarks after using "open as root" option
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...in/+bug/136458

and same error if you: Alt + f2 kdesudo dolphin


It seems that there are more problems.

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Topic: Dolphin crashes
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086993.0

[SheeEttin]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

You might also want learn when to use kdesu over sudo.

Basically, if it's a GUI app like Kate or Adept, you want to use kdesu. If it's just vi or apt-get, use sudo.

[jbaerbock]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

True though for functionality reasons it does not matter much.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

Actually, it does.
If you use sudo for GUI apps, you may screw up permissions and things, like what happened here.

Don't question it, just do it.

[jbaerbock]

Re: Permissions seem to be a bit off.....

Aye Aye Master Seargent Sir! LOL