sudo mc and then save config does not save anything, it seems

[ab]

doing a "sudo mc" to start Midnight Commander in "root" mode.
Changing the sort order for example in mc and trying to save it with "Options->Save setup" it says "setup saved to ~/.mc/ini"
but then exiting and coming back again with "sudo mc" does not have anything set up before.

/root/.mc/ini does not exist either

Not sure if this is supposed to be like this, or what is the work around.

[Snowhog]

Re: sudo mc and then save config does not save anything, it seems

doing a "sudo mc" to start Midnight Commander in "root" mode.

NO, NO, NO! This is a sure way to set yourself up for a borked system.

To run mc as root, you need to first become root.

sudo su -

You'll know you are root because your prompt will change from the $ to a # symbol. Now you can start mc:

mc

What is the difference you ask? As stated above, running sudo application from the CLI means that you are still within your users environment, and more specifically, within your users /home directory. That is a BAD thing. Becoming root first, means that you are using roots environment and in roots /home directory.

Do yourself a BIG favor and read about RootSudo

[ab]

Re: sudo mc and then save config does not save anything, it seems

roger, roger

However, still after doing the above mc does not save the setup changes anywhere