----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 09:04 +0200, tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is there any reason while the yum history infomation is not available when > > running as not root, all other information is available > > It all depends on the permissions on /var/lib/yum/history, it wasn't > that way by default but then: > > > commit adf5ce0d5d8f0066515ca85494f8b217500d7ad2 > Author: Seth Vidal <skvi...@fedoraproject.org> > Date: Wed Dec 9 13:15:08 2009 -0500 > > make sure history dbs are readable only by root - suggested by Josh > Bressers > > ...my guess is that it was to do with the scriptlet output? Josh do you > know / can you remember? >
I looked through my mail from that time, nothing was there (sadly I lack IRC logs). I honestly have no idea why we would have done this. It seems like a silly change. I'll try to remember why this was done, but I don't see why it can be undone if you so desire. Thanks. -- Josh Bressers / Red Hat Product Security Team _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
