Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> (03/05/2009): > I was wondering, is there a specific security reason that this > information is hidden from non-root users? If there is, I should > probably consider doing the same thing in aptitude. But it would > really suck if users couldn't pull up this very useful information > unless they were running aptitude as root. Your Subject isn't exactly appropriate. dpkg.log is root:adm. Which leads to the following: | -(cyril@talisker pts/4)-(~/hack/various/dpkg.git) | $ git log -Sroot:adm | commit 3cdfe225ab9b72cc7cb019fa8d8c81cd72d6ea52 | Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | Date: Sun Jan 4 18:45:14 2009 +0200 | | Make dpkg log files user readable | | Closes: #480556 Happy reading. Mraw, KiBi.
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