hash file access

[Willem Ferguson]

On 24/10/2015 00:17, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 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
>
The most likely explanation is that I executed Subsurface directly after 
building it using sudo. But I still would have to run Subsurface with a 
sudo. I will keep an eye on this with my next build. As you are aware, 
Ferguson is capable of amazingly silly things. Kind regards, willem.