Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (75 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Michael Andres wrote:

> ma@Fibonacci:~ $ rm -rf /tmp/rr
> ma@Fibonacci:~ $ zypper --root /tmp/rr sa 
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source
>
> Root privileges are required for modifying system repositories.
>
>
> Why should the above require Root privileges? Shouldn't we actually 
> check whether we are aloowed to read/write the directories?

Yes, that would be very nice.  For my local testing I often patched out 
the geteuid checks, obviously not a nice solution :-)


Ciao,
Michael.
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