.dbus folder and permissions.

[mivo]

The hidden .dbus folder in /home/username/ seems to be new in 8.04. I noticed that it (and the content) is set to root-only permission. Is there a reason for this? Or differently put, is it safe to change the permissions to the user? (It messes up my rsync script -- and I don't know how to exclude the .dbus folder from the backup.)

[mivo]

I figured out how to exclude the path from the rsync backup:

rsync -r -t -v --progress --delete --exclude '.dbus' /home/username/ /media/disk/backup-calico/home/username/

This works. Still odd that the system puts a root-only folder in the user's home partition.

[sisco311]

My .dbus folder is owned by my user and has 0700 permissions.
I think you can change safely the owner, group and permissions:

sudo chown -R <username>\: ~/.dbus
chmod -R 0700 ~./.gbus