Huge security issue also. See former messages in the archive from me related to this, ahem, feature.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dazed_75 <lthiels...@gmail.com> wrote: > What genius decided that the users home directory should also BE the > [gnome] Desktop? Doing so means that every file and directory in a users > home directory appears on the Desktop. One does not notice it on finishing > the install because there are no visible files there. Makes me wonder how > many people we did installs for at the installfest are now being bothered by > this weird setup. > > I do not know how widespread this is but I found a number of discussions > about it on the web. A scratch install of ubuntu 9.04 seems to do this > though an upgrade does not. I THINK the change is related to the new > install having a ~/.config/ that looks like: > > # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update >> # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're >> # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run >> # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped >> # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an >> # absolute path. No other format is supported. >> # >> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/" >> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/" > > instead of > >> ---<snip>--- >> # >> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" >> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" >> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" >> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public" >> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" >> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" >> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" >> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos" > > > I don't know how or why that happened, but I also noted the absence of > .bashrc and .profile which I thought were supposed to be made (copied from > /etc) by default for every user? This almost makes me wonder if the change > was intentional or possibly poorly vetted. > > Anyone have any inside info about this? > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand
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