-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu > <andreimpope...@gmail.com> was heard to say: >> On Sun,03.May.09, 10:18:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >>> However, does the package management software (as aptitude does) store >>> user preferences in the home directory? If, for example, you always run >>> aptitude as yourself then give it the root password when prompted, it >>> stores your preferences in your home directory. If you later run >>> aptitude as root, those prefernces won't be active. Also, vis-versa. >> It's a bit more weird than this (I thought about filing a whishlist >> bug): when you start aptitude as user it uses his preferences, but as >> soon as you switch to root (via the menu items or when prompted) >> aptitude also switches to root's preferences. Kinda' confusing. > > There's a long and fairly tortured history behind which configuration > aptitude uses when. Basically: if aptitude uses $HOME instead of > changing to /root, then it'll end up sticking root-owned files inside > the user's home directory, including files the user might not be able to > read and/or delete. >
But if they can run aptitude in the first place, surely they could either su to root or use sudo to read or delete the files. Just my opinion. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn+/YIACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GqMnQCfYkMEPo6sgtxTWxvTQnbLH4Am yI4AoN+Aikaa65Ch3r7Ipn+A4jLHgXSw =goWH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
