Bug#812511: apt-get download: "Can't drop privileges ..."
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.2
> Severity: minor
>
> I get a warning when "apt-get download"ing stuff as root:
>
> # apt-get download nyancat
> Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 nyancat i386 1.4.4-1 [13.3 kB]
> Fetched 13.3 kB in 3s (3834 B/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading
> as file '/root/nyancat_1.4.4-1_i386.deb' couldn't be accessed by user
> '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
Yes, _apt cannot write to /root, obviously. It's a message for you that
the http method disabled a security feature because you forced it too.
I'm not sure if it's possible, but it would be nice if we could create
a temporary directory in the CWD owned by _apt and then write to that
as the _apt user, and moves the file(s) into the CWD as root once we're
done.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
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