On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
Further to my last message
dpkg:lib/dbmodify.c:146
case msdbrw_needsuperuserlockonly:
/* if (getuid() || geteuid())
ohshit(_("requested operation requires superuser privilege"));
*/
/* fall through */
case msdbrw_write: case msdbrw_writeifposs:
if (access(adir,W_OK)) {
if (errno != EACCES)
Note, the second test actually attempts to access the file, and that will
fail if you don't have write permission. Also there is a similar check in
method.cc that I left because it was actually attempting to use root.
Corrin
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