On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 09:10 +0100, Jean-Christophe Baptiste wrote: > Le 27/02/2017 à 23:35, Chris a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > > 2017-02-27 23:09 GMT+01:00 Chris <cpoll...@embarqmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 19:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you check the permissions of /run/user/1000/dconf/user? > > > > > My > > > > > guess > > > > > is that it is root owned because you've started an X > > > > > application > > > > > as > > > > > root. > > > > > > > > chris@localhost:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf > > > > total 4 > > > > -rw------- 1 chris chris 2 Feb 27 16:06 user > > > > > > You need to check the permissions when this actually happens. > > > > > > As soon as you stop the root X process, the permissions are > > > typically > > > restored. > > > > > > > > What's the best way to monitor that? > > Seriously, this is not a sysadmin mailing list. There are plenty of > solutions on Google. > Sorry, I'm not a sysdamin, I'm a 68yr old home user who is trying to get this figured out without much success. I did try Google before asking but maybe I didn't use the correct search terms. I'll try and think up some better ones to use. Apologies for all the noise on the list.
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