Scripsit "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051002 05:57]:
>> > - The password database is used instead of $HOME to
>> > determine where aptitude's configuration file goes, so
>> > people using sudo don't end up with root-owned mode 0700
>> > files in their home directory. (Closes: #272429, #274216,
>> > #285334, #272409)
>> Also note that I got just as many bugs reports after I made debconf
>> do this as I was able to close by doing it. :-/
> This is not really a larger problem, but just a problem in sudo.
I'm not even sure it is the right problem. On a machine where several
people share the administration workload, each may well have his own
preferences with respect to aptitude's UI. Storing the configuration
in $HOME rather than using getpwuid allows that nicely.
Yes, it is ugly to have a root-owned 700 directory in $HOME.
Perhaps a better fix would be to just chown $HOME/.aptitude and
$HOME/.aptitude/config to the owner of $HOME when they are created
(resp. written to).
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