Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Mario Fabiano
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files > are owned by user/group 1000/1000). > But that doesn't explain the mysterious ch

Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-03 Thread Mario Fabiano
I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I have some questions. Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look at the files belonging to the package. Is there some way, maybe using dpk