~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 11:46:18 Colin Law did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 23 July 2014 16:07, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2014 10:26:16 Colin Law did opine
> > 
> >> ...
> >> Alternatively I know that if graphics apps are run using sudo
> >> instead of gksudo that some files can end up getting owned by root,
> >> but I don't know whether that can apply to .dbus.
> > 
> > Neither do I Colin.  Thanks again.
> 
> If you have never done, for example, sudo gedit, then that could not
> be the problem of course.  If you have then perhaps it is.
> 
> Colin

What I have done is sudo -i to get root, then an su amanda -c "amanda 
command", because theres lots of amanda that will not run as any other 
user unless its been seriously hacked by the ubuntu crew to get rid of 
that, which we consider to be a huge security hole.  Ubuntu does do that 
to the amanda deb's however, and both client machines are running that 
version with no user named amanda in sight.  I am running a much newer but 
nowhere near current, 4.0.0alpa.svn.4761,built from the tarball.  It has 
support for some of tars newer features that the 2.6.1p1 version does not.

Somehow I have a hard time believing that could do it.  But to run 
amrecover, root must run that as root in order that it can extract and 
over write anything you tell it to extract.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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