.ICEauthority file permissions

[Derek Broughton]

John Pierce wrote:

> Hello list!
> 
> I have been using redhat/fedora for quite some time and now that I
> have switched to kubuntu
> I have found my distro of choice.
> 
> One small problem though.
> 
> I used to ssh into all of the machines on my local network and run yum
> update from the command line
> and apt-get update does not actually update the programs it just
> fetches the packages.

No, it doesn't even do that.  It updates the _list_ of available packages.  

You need to use "sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude safe-upgrade"
(or "full-upgrade", depending.  Read the man pages!). 

> If I run adept_updater from the shell with sudo then it changes the
> ownership of the .DCOP* and .ICEauthority file
> and my local user account then fails.

Naturally.  NEVER use sudo for GUI programs unless you know what you're
doing.  Use kdesu (admittedly, if you run it without, you'll see it
says "use kdesu or sudo" - file a bug).
-- 
derek