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Very often I find that my /home/username/.ICEauthority file has reverted ownership to root. This means that I can't log on as a user to either KDE or XFCE. From the console, I have to change ownership back to my username. I can't figure out what triggers this, but it's an enormous hassle.

Does anybody have a fix for this? I'd like to know what causes it and eliminate the cause rather than have a script that automatically does "chown -R -c username /home/username".

FWIW, I'm running Slackware 10.1 with KDE 3.4. I think I've seen this problem mentioned with reference to other distros, however.

Thanks a ton.

I may have found the cause of the problem. I'm reporting the possible solution here in case others encounter this.

I noticed that when I would launch Krusader with sudo, a .DCOPserver file owned by root would be created in my /home/username directory and, invariably, the ownership of .ICEauthority in the same directory would subsequently change from username to root.

It appears that if I launch Krusader with kdesu instead of sudo, this doesn't happen. Or at least not so far.

Note that I'm not running KDE, though it's obviously installed. Instead, I generally run xfce4, but I do use a handful of KDE apps from xcfe.

Since I didn't make it clear in my initial post, the reason this ownership change is so annoying is that it effectively prevents me from logging in to my desktop environment (either XFCE or KDE) as user. To do so, I have to log in as root and manually change ownership of /home/username.ICEauthority from root back to username.