[Linux-disciples] Apt questions

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Maybe this is ubuntu specific?

bostoncoop:~>ls -l /usr/bin/apt-get
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 117480 Jan 10 17:26 /usr/bin/apt-get

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Apt-get can only be run by root, even though I swear I
> used to run it without sudo. But apparently that's the way
> it is:
> 
> -rwxr-x---  1 root root 118184 2005-04-06 16:38 /usr/bin/apt-get
> 
> Doesn't that seem overzealous? Apt-get source, for instance,
> is totally harmless, and anyone should be able to run it.
> The Unixy solution here would be to pull off a separate
> program (apt-source, say), which doesn't install any
> packages and hence doesn't require root privileges. Or is
> there some other way to make some verbs within apt-get
> root-only and other verbs usable by normal users?
> 
> (This dovetails nicely with some recent questions I've had
> about whether permissions and ownership can be specified at
> a very fine level -- such as at the level of individual
> function calls.)
> 

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