Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that still does not explain how that file ended up in / though. do > you run any gnome programs as root? (an evil practice IMO)
Reading through this thread I tried: ls -al `locate .esd_auth` -rw------- 1 root root 16 Oct 21 09:19 /.esd_auth -rw------- 1 root root 16 Oct 23 14:02 /root/.esd_auth Hmm, Oct 21 was the day I installed potato on this machine (including Gnome) but did *not* yet start any X program, as far as I can remember. So it seems '/.esd_auth' was produced during installation. Looks like a bug to me. Is it? On Oct 23 i struggled with configuring X. That's when /root/.esd_auth was created. I don't use any sound programs at all, as my soundcard is not supported by Linux (Guillemot ISIS, hope you tell me wrong on this!) I don't think I run any Gnome program as root, but I'm not absolutely sure about it. But I don't use esound... Robert Epprecht.
