Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500
> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > 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

And does du also work with nonreadable directories?

-- hendrik