Bug 115973

Summary: Default folder for YaST's screenshots
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Balazs Melikant <balazs.melikant>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: balazs.melikant
Version: Beta 3   
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Description Balazs Melikant 2005-09-08 19:42:00 UTC 
As a normal KDE user (, but after providing the root password!) while attempting
to save screenshots on various YaST screens, the default folder to store them
would be '/root/yast2-screen-shots/'. After closing the YaST session this folder
is not accessible/readable. I think it would be more reliable to use a folder in
the normal user's home, than to touch the /root/.
I understand, that it's in fact a root session, but in fact I WAS the one, who
typed in the root psw, so why to hide the newly generated pics from my normal
KDE user?!
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-09-09 09:21:34 UTC 
This is an enhancement. After all one might argue that this is a security issue.
I'll redirect it, maby someone changes this behaviour.
Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-09-09 10:10:23 UTC 
Every user gets those screen shots into his $HOME/yast2-screen-shots/ 
directory by default. Since most YaST2 modules require root priviliges, they 
are run as root with 'kdesu', so that default directory is indeed 
~root/yast2-screen-shots. 
 
If you feel safe about this and you want to make those screen shots public by 
default, you can simply symlink ~root/yast2-screen-shots to some other 
directory with less restrictive permissions (it's ~root that has those 
restrictive permissions, not yast2-screen-shots/ below it). But we cannot do 
this by default - this would really be a security problem. Screen shots might 
contain confidential information. 
 
Besides, you can of course always simply change the directory in that file 
selection box. The initial directory there is only a suggestion. 
 
Bottom line: This behaviour is intentional.