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Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop

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On 2021-02-01 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having 
> copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is 
> intentionally isolated from the internet].
> 
> When logging in as user, everything appears normal.
> 
> *HOWEVER* when logged in as "root" the desktop *DOES NOT*:
>    1. display a folder titled "root's Home"
>    2. display icons for files in /root/Desktop
>    3. display icons for file systems mounted when plugging in a flash
>       drive [although Caja properly shows them to be in /media/root]
> 
> Any ideas? Is this a known bug?


So, you are logging in as root using the graphical desktop manager and 
arriving at a graphical desktop?  Most people recommend against that. 
It would not surprise me that some software refuses to run as root, as a 
security feature.


Instead, I use Terminal, su(1) to root, and add my public key to root's 
authorized_keys file.  Once I've done that, I can use ssh-agent(1) and 
ssh-add(1), enter my passphrase once, and then use ssh(1) to log in to 
any account on any networked machine that has my public key.


"SSH Mastery" by Lucas [1] is a worthwhile investment.


David


[1] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ssh

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Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-01 13:50 +0100
  Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-01 15:50 +0100
    Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-01 16:50 +0100
      Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-02-01 21:50 +0100
        Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-02 01:30 +0100
  Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-02 02:40 +0100

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