On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 04:37:00PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 2022-01-17 18:02:25, Marc Espie wrote: > > > > Lol. > > > > cert.pem only contains public certificates. Insisting on only root being > > able to read it means you are going to run code as root which doesn't > > require > > it. That seems way more unreasonable than your original assumption. > > > > I am not arguing about the access permissions (which I screwed > up), but I wonder why pkg_add run by root failed with EPERM? > Actually root was the only one *permitted* to access this file. > Thats not an error. > > If there was another user account involved, then show me.
The user is called _pkgfetch -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .

