Permission Problems

[Mark Fraser]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 21:23:21 Derek Broughton wrote:
> mickey wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what the problem is here on Kubuntu-7.10 ?
> > I googled and everybody is having problems with this error message
>
> "Everyone"?  Hardly.
>
> > Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora but nobody has answer for problem
> > Can't get write permissions in root using Konqueror.
> >
> > :~$ sudo konqueror
> >
> > [sudo] password for mickey:
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/tmp/kde-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/tmp/ksocket-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mickey" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
>
> If you do "sudo konqueror", you will always get those errors, because you
> aren't running with a root environment.  It's perfectly predictable, but
> not ime fatal - konqueror still runs.  The same thing will happen if you
> try to run any other kde app via sudo.
>
> The simple fix (and correct way to run a KDE app with root privilege) is to
> use "kdesu konqueror"

Thing is it worked OK with 7.04, both with sudo and kdesu. Now on 7.10 I get 
those lines no matter what I'm trying to do as root.