Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
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> > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
> > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.
>
> Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not
> readable by the normal user?
No. dpkg just queries /var/lib/dpkg/status, which is world readable,
and 'du' works perfectly well on non-readable files:
~$ cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
~$ du /etc/shadow
1 /etc/shadow
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