kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Nov 20 01:54:40 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 20:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >and he suggests that this works for him, except of course, when it
> >> >doesn't work for him.
>
> Still correct :-) If it doesn't work for root, who then is it going to
> work for?
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without auditing all of the code, who would know if there weren't some
blocks in place when superuser has hold of some of the processes?
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> And when your train of thought isn't disturbed by having to
> sudo for everything you need to do, it really does seem like its the
> lessor of two evils to me.
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you can su - to root in a shell
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> It occurs to me that I should copy the .kde
> directory to /home/gene, chown -R gene:gene ./kde and see if I can
> function as gene. What else would I need to do?
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You ***might*** want to be selective about what you actually copy
from /root/.kde - i.e., instead of copying the entire folder, why not
just /root/.kde/share/config/kdemailrc and /root/.kde/share/apps/kmail
and leave the rest behind?
Craig
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