Bug 1053676 - RFE: User/root permissions are not checked before running install/update operations
Summary: RFE: User/root permissions are not checked before running install/update oper...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 910133
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-15 15:48 UTC by jpacner
Modified: 2014-08-31 23:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-15 16:37:27 UTC
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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 ***
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