Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#797270: aptitude: fails to download changelogs when $TMPDIR is readable by root only

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Axel Beckert 

> Because APT 1.1~exp* uses an unprivileged user named _apt for
> downloads if running under root privileges.

You can't generally use $TMPDIR for inter-user IPC, so in that case,
create an IPC directory in a well-known location and use that instead.

I don't think this is a bug in libpam-tmpdir at all.

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