Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru
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Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>> On Sun,03.May.09, 10:18:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>>
>>> However, does the package management software (as aptitude does) store
>>> user preferences in the home directory? If, for example, you always run
>>> aptitude as yourself then give it the root password when prompted, it
>>> stores your preferences in your home directory. If you later run
>>> aptitude as root, those prefernces won't be active. Also, vis-versa.
>> It's a bit more weird than this (I thought about filing a whishlist
>> bug): when you start aptitude as user it uses his preferences, but as
>> soon as you switch to root (via the menu items or when prompted)
>> aptitude also switches to root's preferences. Kinda' confusing.
>
> There's a long and fairly tortured history behind which configuration
> aptitude uses when. Basically: if aptitude uses $HOME instead of
> changing to /root, then it'll end up sticking root-owned files inside
> the user's home directory, including files the user might not be able to
> read and/or delete.
>
But if they can run aptitude in the first place, surely they could
either su to root or use sudo to read or delete the files. Just my opinion.
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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)
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