deleting ~/Desktop directory FIXED!

[Basil Chupin]

On 08/06/12 07:27, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 05:08 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
>> On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:50, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>> Damn! The average Ubuntu #$%^&@ user hasn't a chance without this
>>> crowd of neuromancers assisting. Ric
>>>
>>
>> Still better than the windows "Contact your system administrator"
>> Hello Me!
>> Oh hi me, how can I help?
>> I need to contact myself about this error...
>
> I'm getting old. There used to be a time you could brass-knuckles your 
> way around your own setup. You could hamfist it and smash it to 
> smithereens. Your choice. Now, deleting a directory has to pass muster 
> from some config file I had never heard of before. I do wonder if the 
> "old" way that had far less going on was better, and thus more secure 
> by virtue of fewer things happening that the user wasn't in control of?
>
> <swears bluely> Ric

I have a feeling that this may be tied to the fact that Ubuntu does not 
have a root user with its own root password but uses "sudo" as an 
emulation to be a pretend root. From what I have experienced, "sudo" 
does NOT give you all the power of root.

However, having stated this I also have found that in at least one 
system there is a hidden file created when the system is booted in the 
user's home directory and this file cannot be deleted even by (a real) 
root. The hidden file is ".gvfs" and the only way to delete is to boot 
into init 1, login as root, and then delete it.

BC

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