SUDO goof-up

[John]

Lee wrote:
> I tried running firefox running it threw a root terminal session.(Don't
> ask).
>  I did this command
>  sudo firefox
> And now when I try to launch firefox in user mode I get this pop-up
> window and it says: in a little title bar at the top of the window:
> Gecko and then in the pane
>               title="mainWindow. title;"
>  --------------------^

Try this:


sudo chown -R ${USER}. .



I have what may be a similar problem; if I login as me, and in the first 
temrinal window I open, I do this:
sudo -s

then when I finish the root shell, ~/.bash_history is owned by root.

Whoops.