Hi all folks

Gentoo 1.4
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I encountered problem in using 'sudo'

# epm -q sudo
sudo-1.6.7_p5

# sudo -u satimis _kmail
trying to create local folder: Permission denied
failed to create /root/.kde/socket-mymachine
kdeinit: Aborting. _No write access to $HOME directory <root>
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication

# ls -l /root/.kde/
total 1
drwx ------ 2 root _ root _ Autostart
drwx ------ 10 root _ root _ share
lrwxrwxrwx _1 root _ _root _ _ socket-mymachine -> _/tmp/ksocket-root
lrwxrwxrwx _1 root _ _root _ _ tmp-mymachine -> _/tmp/kde-root

# ls -l /root/.kde/socket-mymachine/
-rw-r-r-- _1 root _ root _ KSMServer__0
srw------- 1 root _ root _ kdeinit-:0
srwxr-xr-x 1 root _ root _ klauncherxDBXNa.slave-socket

Kindly advise.

B.R.
satimis

You're trying to create a directory as a user that is not the owner of the parent directory, which won't work here. Maybe you should explain what you're trying to do in more detail.