Hi all:
I am debugging some problems in my system after I noticed that some
files under my home directory are owned by root. Specifically a dconf
one was causing trouble.
This is probably due to my running GUI applications with "sudo", instead
of with "gksudo" or similar. Such permission side-effects are well
documented on the Internet. Unfortunately, I only found out about it
recently.
When scanning all my files under my home directory, I noticed that
/home/rdiez/.aptitude/config was owned by root. I guess that is not
desirable.
However, Aptitude is not really a GUI application, so using gksudo
instead of sudo is probably not the best way, especially when running a
text console over SSH.
Could someone shed some light on these matters?
I am not sure whether this is the right place for Aptitude questions. I
tried e-mailing Aptitude's author, Daniel Burrows, but the e-mail
bounced as unreachable.
Many thanks,
rdiez
