[Bug 268167] [NEW] kde-config creates $HOME/.kde

[Francois Gouget]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdelibs4c2a

kde-config creates the '$HOME/.kde/share/config' directory if it does
not exist. This is a problem if one runs it via sudo (possibly
indirectly) because then it creates a directory that the non-root user
has no access to and cannot delete.

To reproduce this issue, do the following:

$ rm -rf ~/.kde
$ ls -ld ~/.kde
ls: /home/weaver/.kde: No such file or directory
$ sudo kde-config
[sudo] password for weaver:
$ ls -ld ~/.kde
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2008-09-09 16:32 /home/weaver/.kde
$ rm -rf .kde
rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `.kde': Permission denied

Another easier way to reproduce the issue is to tweak $HOME:

$ mkdir /tmp/decoy
$ HOME=/tmp/decoy kde-config
$ ls -ld /tmp/decoy/.kde
drwx------ 3 weaver weaver 4096 2008-09-09 16:41 /tmp/decoy/.kde


This bug happens on both Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04, but strangely not on my Debian Testing system.

** Affects: kdelibs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kde-config creates $HOME/.kde
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268167
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