On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any > > > pointers. > > > > Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc. > > Doesn't work. It's not just the owner of a file, it's also the > content. Yes, I know about sed. No, I don't think this would work > either.
FWIW this approach works perfectly for me. I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them. When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner. I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that. I do it for these files: desk:/mnt/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls dot.fetchmailrc dot.gnome dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 dot.procmailrc dot.xsession dot.fluxbox dot.gnome2 dot.gtkrc-2.0 dot.profile dot.gbuffyrc dot.gnome2_private dot.kde dot.qt dot.gconf dot.grun_history dot.kderc dot.xmms dot.gconfd dot.gtkrc dot.muttrc dot.xscreensaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]