Re: I'll never root again...

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:10:47 GMT

On 28 Dec 2004 17:09:00 -0800, Bryan Brock wrote:
>
> If they do exist, the cp will overwrite the files without changing the
> permissions. If they don't exist in the newuser directory yet, you'll
> need to do the chown because the files will still be owned by root
> after you do the copy.

then you might want to grep -r root ~/.kde
to find any hardcoded values. :(

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