Bug 427064

Summary:	Enhance message when running rpm as non-root user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2007-12-30 19:55:51 UTC

Description of problem:

The message that a user gets when running rpm as non-root user can be improved

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


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e <foo> as non-root user

  
Actual results:

You will get error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000

Expected results:

Something more nicer like "You need to be root to perform this command." which
is the output from yum.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2008-04-01 10:43:03 UTC

Fixed upstream to log the reason too, so regular user would typically get:
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (Permission denied)

Rpm doesn't require root for transaction etc locks, it just needs write
permissions to the directory so claiming root is required would be wrong.