Bug 205993

Summary:	Running kate with sudo for the first time wreck havoc with permissions in temporary files in /tmp and /var/tmp
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	fredoche
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description fredoche 2009-09-02 15:08:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Running kate with sudo wreck havoc with permissions in temporary files in /tmp and /var/tmp
I know have a lot of warning such as the one following when apt-get installing konversation or any kde app which require post-installation configuration.

Error: "/tmp/kde-fredf6" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(14463)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating:  "fredb;1251896402;815342;14463_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(14499)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating:  "fredb;1251896402;815866;14499_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4 running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-fredf6" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2010-02-16 18:29:41 UTC

That is a generic problem, if any, I would not start Kate or any other KDE application as root.

Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2010-05-23 00:41:54 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 209968 ***