hash file access

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Oct 23 15:17:09 PDT 2015


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:28:32PM +0200, Robert Helling wrote:
> Willem,
> 
> > On 23.10.2015, at 15:26, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za <mailto:willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>> wrote:
> > 
> > On my machine the hash file in home/.subsurface can only be accessed by root. This does NOT apply to the .subsurface directory.
> > This gives a terminal error message when executing Subsurface as non-root.
> > Is this a coding problem or a setup problem on my Ubuntu 15.04?
> 
> 
> I wonder how it got there. Did you ever run Subsurface as root?

The only way for this to happen is if Subsurface was run as root.
A normal user cannot create files owned by root for obvious reasons.

Did you maybe run it as root to figure out what's going on with the
bluetooth issue you are having?

/D


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