Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:03:47 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .config Message-ID: <20111130200347.8358419f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkoYk%2BeukuSL30GcEL4fmdxcoO=iWW0GnPO%2Bwko90gxRGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201111230539.21395.lumiwa@gmail.com> <20111123124633.28028a25.freebsd@edvax.de> <201111230731.07527.lumiwa@gmail.com> <CAHHBGkoYk%2BeukuSL30GcEL4fmdxcoO=iWW0GnPO%2Bwko90gxRGA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > to something innocuous. One could obvio- > usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). > So it couldn't persist from boot to boot. > > The cleanest solution is to forgo qt/kde, but > then you're slightly more limited in what you > can use for office-type stuff. The question remains: How is a user-started process (e. g. when you run the "startx" command) supposed to create directory entries and files on root level /, a thing that only root and root-like users (and programs!) should be allowed to? % mkdir /.config mkdir: /.config: Permission denied As a normal user, you _intendedly_ can't do this. Why would you assume that a program you start can do it? Creating such data structures in a _user_ directory is completely okay. But in / it simply sounds WRONG. Sorry. JUST PLAIN WRONG! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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