Re: apt as a user
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Vanessa <vanessa@ulukai.org> wrote:
> On 2014-10-31 17:17, shawn wilson wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mario Castelán Castro
>> <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> wrote:
>>> El 31/10/14 09:29, shawn wilson escribió:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to allow an apt user to run apt* commands. I've got this
>>>> polkit:
>>>>
>>>> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/10-org.com.foo.apt.pkla
>>>>
>>>> [Configuration]
>>>> AdminIdentities=unix-user:apt
>>>> Action=org.debian.apt.*
>>>> ResultAny=no
>>>> ResultInactive=no
>>>> ResultActive=yes
>>>>
>>>> However when I: su - apt
>>>> it looks like nothing has changed:
>>>>
>>>> $ apt-get update
>>>> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13:
>>>> Permission denied)
>>>> E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
>>>> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission
>>>> denied)
>>>> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
>>>> root?
>>>>
>>>> I've got aptdaemon installed. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> If I'm reading the description and documentation of aptdaemon right, you
> need to use an aptdaemon client, which would be aptdcon in the same
> package. But the fetching and installation would then be done by
> aptdaemon, which would still be run as root and not the user executing
> aptdcon.
>
Ahha, that sorta worked:
$ aptdcon --safe-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded (31):
[.....]
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?Y
ERROR: You are not allowed to perform this action.
('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.50'}): org.debian.apt.upgrade-packages
So, I'm guessing there's something wrong with my polkit rule?
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