On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:09:30PM +0100, Stephan Austermühle wrote: > Am 30.01.2011 19:54, schrieb Mark Hindley: > > > Yes, I think so. When (approximately!) was your original apt-cacher > > install? I wonder if it was before the option to run as www-data was > > introduced. That was also before I was maintainer and I don't have the > > sources, so I am a bit in the dark. Judging from the changelog that was > > before version 0.9..... > > Original system installation was around spring 2007 but the apt-cacher > was installed somewhat later.
OK, that is just before I was maintainer, but certainly after the non-root option was around. Could you have manually changed the ownership of /var/cache/apt-cacher at some point? > > Your workaround of chown www-data:www-data /var/cache/apt-cacher is fine > > as far as I know and is the way a new installation will be. > > Okay. I was just wondering if this may cause a security issue. Not as far as I know Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
