On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37:47AM +0000, jindam, vani wrote:
how do i stop apt downloads if i dont
use sudo. for ex:
$ apt install reportbug
Since you posted your sample command with a $ as the shell prompt, we
assume that you are running the command as a non-root user. That's what
the $ prompt traditionally means.
That command, run as a non-root user, will stop on its own, very quickly,
once it tries to do things it's not permitted to do.
unicorn:~$ time apt install reportbug
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission
denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are
you root?
real 0.053 user 0.020 sys 0.000
If the OP is complaining about:
$ apt download reportbug
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 reportbug all
7.5.3~deb10u1 [128 kB]
Fetched 128 kB in 0s (642 kB/s)
$
Then there's no way to stop this other than making apt executable only
by root. And even then wget will allow the same thing.
Look into restricted shells or chroots if you want to restrict ordinary
users from doing certain things. Or quotas if it's, for example, a user
downloading lots of packages and not cleaning up.
Tim
