I still have a hard time with permissions in linux maybe I haven't come across t

[mahesh]

I still have a hard time with permissions in linux maybe I haven't come across the right tutorial yet. In this use case I'm starting VMware Workstation as root (at my logon) so it can have access a couple of mounted partitions from a RAID array.

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sudo su
 vmware &
I'll get this error:
root@<computername>:/home/<username># I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml" the hostd directory is not written.
Failed to create secure directory (/root/.config/pulse): Permission denied

So root can't create a directory in my limited profile?