Bugzilla – Bug 115973
Default folder for YaST's screenshots
Last modified: 2005-09-09 10:10:23 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?!
This is an enhancement. After all one might argue that this is a security issue. I'll redirect it, maby someone changes this behaviour.
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.