[YLUG] Bash History problem

[Tom Hayward]

that, but maybe not exactly this problem, is why you shouldnt run graphical
apps using sudo on ubuntu - gksudo (or kdsu?) is the equivalent, and doesnt
set various strange files in ~/ as owned by root



On 18/01/2008, Martin Leventon <martlev at martlev.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:19:29PM +0000, Dominic Hibbs wrote:
> --snip--
> > Hold it!  I think I may have seen it.  Should .bash_history be owned by
> me?
> >
> > I will still post this as it may be of interest to someone.
> >
>
> Correct it does need to be owned by the user and also writable
>
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