> On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:09 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:09:37 +0100 > From: Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> > To: Kubuntu Developer Discussion <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Problem with apt (apt-get) in Kubuntu 16.04 > Message-ID: > <caknhny9g2--mgy4d7kuvbw9dwo8cpzj8hro5vqo8nnhq0ez...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2016-01-26 4:28 GMT+01:00 Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>: >>> On Monday, January 25, 2016 07:47:29 PM Paul Loughman wrote: >>> Executing sudo apt-get dist-upgrade results in a change of ownership of the >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory. Below is what it is changed to >>> after running the command. >>> >>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 Jan 25 19:39 . >>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:39 .. >>> drwr??? _apt root 4096 Jan 25 19:36 partial >>> >>> Ownership should not be _apt root. It should remain root root. >>> >>> This behavior is not present prior to Kubuntu 16.04. >> >> I think this is an intentional design change in apt. I see it on Debian Sid >> as well. > > Jup, APT is not running network stuff as root anymore, which is a nice > security enhancement. So the behaviour you are seeing is intended. > Cheers, > Matthias > ------------------------------
Okay. Thank you for the explanation. My first impression when I became aware of this, was that something was wrong because an alias I use to list all downloaded packages was failing on the /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory with: "ls: cannot open directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial: Permission denied" Looking at the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives was when I saw the changed ownership of the partial directory. So, if this ownership change is intentional as a "security enhancement", when isn't the /var/cache/apt/archives directory also not so changed? It remains owned as root root. Paul Loughman - Sent from my iPad Air -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
