[solved] pygtk apps using the wrong .config directory

ConnorBehan · 2007-12-09 11:35:05

This is a problem for me with sonata and deluge - both written in pygtk - so I imagine it applies to other pygtk apps as well. When I am logged in as root, I can only run the programs as root. Running them as connor with su or sudo causes this:

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.config'

They should be looking in /home/connor/.config not /root/.config. The only way I can get them to do this is by logging on explicitly as connor and then running them.

The shell script for deluge had a few lines of code referring to the CONFIG_DIR but it wasn't exactly clear from the comments how one changes it and the shell script for sonata just had something to do with dbus.

Does anyone know a fix for this? Even if I'm not logged on as root very much, I don't want to run these programs as root ever. Thanks.

Last edited by ConnorBehan (2007-12-10 13:58:23)

kumico · 2007-12-09 11:50:07

you might wanna use `login` instead of `su`

stonecrest · 2007-12-09 17:14:17

Uhm, why are you ever logging in as root?

ConnorBehan · 2007-12-10 13:56:37

everyone: the problem has magically seemed to correct itself.

kumico: yes login worked before but it's difficult to use that in scripts.

stonecrest: because sometimes I need to edit xorg.conf, the menu file (which i do by hand), lilo.conf, mpd.conf, and about 50 other things that require root all in the same day. Even then, I run all programs that deal with files downloaded from untrusted sources (image viewers, media players, etc) as a user. Frankly security isn't a huge priority for me since I don't keep secrets but I do keep backups. What is a far bigger risk is forgetting to lock my door while I go to the convenient store... but I still do it.

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[solved] pygtk apps using the wrong .config directory

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