This bug seems to be reintroduced in current karmic. After running sudo aptitude whatever, the permissions on $HOME/.aptitude/config is root:root, 640, so when I run aptitude without as me it can't read the file and uses default permissions and then creates a empty file there.
-- Attempts to write in user homedir even if running as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
