Re: .dbus folder

René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <10946277.avkkW2oZvv@bola>
On Friday March 15 2019 23:02:10 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>    If DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set for a process that tries to
>    use D-Bus, by default the process will attempt to invoke
>    dbus-launch with the --autolaunch option to start up a new session
>    bus or find the existing bus address on the X display or in a file
>    in ~/.dbus/session-bus/

>> My backup program cannot copy it, and I can't access it, except
>> possibly as root.
>
>That shouldn’t happen. Everything in my one belongs to me.

I think that can happen quite easily if the situation outlined above occurs for an application that was launched sudo root. On my systems these see my $HOME unless I use `sudo -H`.

R.
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