Bug 63446
| Summary: | ignored updates don't translate to up2date | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Component: | rhn-applet | Assignee: | Daniel Veillard <veillard> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-17 23:48:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bill Nottingham
2002-04-14 01:30:51 UTC
I can pass them on the command line or up2date can read the applet's config file... either way, passing this off to alikins to decide if/when to put such features in. Once they're in, I can adapt the applet. Hum, the basic problem is that up2date is really a root process while the applet runs as the user's. Having up2date read the user's .rhn-applet.conf doesn't sound safe, and the applet can't read the system package skip list because /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is rightly protected from user's access. Only manual update of the user .rhn-applet.conf seems safe, unless some of the options of up2date can be made public in a separate config file. Not sure it's worth it, Daniel /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is world readable, at least for me. I checked on 5 boxes, some I maintain, some I don't, they all have -rw------- 1 root root mask for /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date . You can check porkchop for example ! Daniel Yeah, my box must be weird. Never Mind Then. |