Bug 1053676

Summary:	RFE: User/root permissions are not checked before running install/update operations
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	jpacner
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	akozumpl, ovasik, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, rholy
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Description jpacner 2014-01-15 15:48:38 UTC

Description of problem:
If dnf is run under non-root user and the requested operation is a non-read-only one (e.g. install/update), it fails first after few minutes of crunching data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf version: 0.3.11

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # assert id -u is not 0
2. dnf update

Actual results:
... permission denied to ...

Expected results:
permissions are checked before any operation is run.

Comment 1 Radek Holy 2014-01-15 16:37:27 UTC

Hello, thank you for the report. It is a duplicate of bug 910133.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 910133 ***