On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 01:03 +0000, tdflanders wrote: > A) If you download packages through the gnome-terminal you will have to > call root: '$ sudo apt-get ...'. The default download folder for this > /home/$USER. This means that all packages you download their are owned > by root.
There is no need to run "sudo apt-get source", "apt-get source" works fine as a normal user. > > If you open nautilus in the gui, you will in fact open '$ nautilus ...' > and not '$ sudo nautilus ...'. This means that you cannot move any > source packages to the waste bin. If you open '$ sudo nautilus' you can > change read and write permissions through the gui (right click > > properties > permissions) but you still cannot change ownership in > group. That is: you have to snipe out every individual file, you cannot > use ctrl+A and ctrl-left_click to unselect. If you are running "apt-get source" from a terminal I would assume you can run "sudo rm" to remove files that you don't want. > This makes it very tempting for newbies to just: '$ cd ; sudo chmod -cR > 777 . ; sudo chown -cR 1000 .'. An experienced user would never do that. An experienced user would never do that because it is a terrible idea. I don't understand why you repeatedly do this if you know that it breaks things. I also have no idea why you chose those particular permissions. > C) If you use your system in this way it will become highly unstable and > you will experience a number of crashes that the bug squad can not > easily verify. Probably, as permissions are important, and changing all of them is going to cause problems. Packages could perhaps be made to fail a little more gracefully, but they cannot be made to work if you change permissions on every file. Thanks, James -- Consolekit crashes due to /var/dbus/system_bus_socket https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
