Bug 202198

Summary:	Program running with superuser priviliges are using wrong settings
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Andrey Borzenkov 2009-08-01 13:48:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.98)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

I start program that requires superuser privilege (e.g. kvpnc). It seems that such programs take their defaults from ~root/.kde4 and not from ~me/.kde4. E.g. for kvpnc

- profiles are save under root, not me
- fonts are completely different (I use own font settings)
etc

This is inconsistent; I expect programs to always respect current user settings.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-08-01 15:22:20 UTC

??? If you run a program as root, then root is the "current user".

Comment 2 Andrey Borzenkov 2009-08-01 15:33:29 UTC

I know what you mean but for average user - (s)he does *not* run program "as root". Program is started and brings up dialogue, that user has to enter superuser password to continue. There is nothing actually that would suggest that program is running as different user.

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-08-01 16:27:42 UTC

I guess this could be merged with the bug 178988. Thanks

Comment 4 Andreas Pakulat 2009-08-01 17:34:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178988 ***