Hi Armin, Am 24.04.2013 16:28, schrieb Armin Haas: > Package: apt-show-versions > Version: 0.20 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > directly after I installed apt-show-versions I was able to run it as root and > as non-root. Now it still works when I run it as root, but when I try to run > it as non-root, I get this: > > can't open /var/cache/apt-show-versions/files: Permission denied at > /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 188 > > And indeed /var/cache/apt-show-versions/files has permissions 0600. > > I didn't change permissions manually on that file, but I did run > 'apt-show-versions --initialize' manually as root after installing updates. > root's umask on my system is 0077.
You are right. The permission were set wrong because of your umask. Default umask is 0022. You have to chmod all files in /var/cache/apt-show-versions/. I will think about a bugfix in a future version. Christoph -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung, Uni-Mainz, Germany Anselm Franz von Bentzel-Weg 12, 55128 Mainz Telefon: +49(6131)3926337 Instant-Messaging: Jabber: mar...@uni-mainz.de (Siehe http://www.zdv.uni-mainz.de/4010.php)
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