New installation Jaunty constant permissions problems

[Eberhard Roloff]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> However if you want to stay with Kubuntu (which I suppose is your
>>> intention), you should learn how to avoid your permissions
>>> problems. Like I wrote above, don't use sudo for graphical
>>> applications but use kdesudo instead.
>> As kdesudo is just a frontend for sudo, I doubt this will work.
> 
> There is indeed a difference and probably I should have explained it in 
> my previous mail. If you use sudo you will have your $HOME set from your 
> user account while kdesudo sets it for the root account. You can check 
> it yourself: Use the command "sudo konsole" and in the newly started 
> konsole window try "echo $HOME". Compare this with "kdesudo konsole" and 
> "echo $HOME".
> 
>> Just use sudo or kdesudo or one of the other frontenends when doing
>> the occasional admin work.
> 
> Again, don't use sudo for graphical applications but kdesudo instead. It 
> may work with sudo or maybe not, depending on the particular 
> application.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> 
Nils,

thanks very much for pointing this out. I wonder why the man page does 
not mention it...

Kind regards and thanks again

Eberhard