Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo
On 12 September 2022 1:04:51 PM UTC, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:59:15PM +0000, jindam, vani wrote:
>> On 12 September 2022 11:23:49 AM UTC, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
>> >If the OP is complaining about:
>> >
>> >$ apt download reportbug
>> >Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 reportbug all
>> >7.5.3~deb10u1 [128 kB]
>> >Fetched 128 kB in 0s (642 kB/s)
>> >$
>>
>> yes
>>
>> >Then there's no way to stop this other than making apt executable only
>> >by root.
>>
>> thats scary, i dont want to meddle with
>> default permissions.
>>
>> thanks for understanding my issue
>
>Well, *I* don't understand your issue yet. Can you please explain it in
>more detail?
>
>Are you trying to stop other users on your system from doing this, or are
>you trying to stop *yourself* from doing this?
i am concerned about *myself*
>Is your concern the use of bandwidth?
yes
>Is a disk being filled up and
>running out of space? Something else?
frankly, if the downloaded files cant
be used, its *definitely* wastage
of space
>Are you *only* concerned about the "apt" command (and maybe apt-get), or
>is the concern broader?
yes
i use only apt
>Do you also want to place restrictions on other
>commands that can download files and store them on the disk, like lynx,
>curl, wget, ftp, w3m, firefox-esr, and so on?
no
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