Can you stop launching wget or curl as root? -- Please! Launching a web crawler/browser such as wget or curl as super user root is a bad design specially if it runs in background without user consent and knowledge every 12h on all Ubuntu Desktop and Server based devices worldwide.
It does not following IT Best Practices and is part of a unremovable package aka base-files https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557 REFERENCES https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424 ** Bug watch added: github.com/curl/curl/issues #5557 https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888572 Title: motd-news: use wget instead of curl To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1888572/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
