Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:43:42 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .config Message-ID: <20111219194342.520e3026.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkq_Y_4JOEntENoipX%2BaRk1QCT%2Byx9nDMGeqz8kxsP9%2BjQ@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> <20111130200347.8358419f.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAHHBGkq_Y_4JOEntENoipX%2BaRk1QCT%2Byx9nDMGeqz8kxsP9%2BjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > >> to something innocuous. =A0One 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? > > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0% mkdir /.config > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mkdir: /.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? >=20 > I don't have any QT/KDE stuff but isn't kdm suid > (& owned by root)? That could be the reason: kdm, belonging to the KDE world and quite probably using Qt, running with the permissions to access /. You could temporarily try to disable kdm and replace it by xdm, or no display login manager at all. In that case, /.config shouldn't appear anymore. --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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