Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]

2017-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-06-19 11:03 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > > |> On my system, only /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is owned by > |> the _apt user, and it's not world-readable: > >|> All the regular files in /var/lib/apt/lists are owned by >

Re: Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]

2017-06-19 Thread Jim McCloskey
Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: |> On my system, only /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is owned by |> the _apt user, and it's not world-readable: |> All the regular files in /var/lib/apt/lists are owned by |> root:root and have standard 0644 permissions Thank

Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]

2017-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-06-18 13:30 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Posting here in case this might help others who may be encountering the > same problem. > > I really appreciate the enhanced security provided for apt in the new > release. But one of the changes caused me a small headache in upgrading. >

problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]

2017-06-18 Thread Jim McCloskey
Posting here in case this might help others who may be encountering the same problem. I really appreciate the enhanced security provided for apt in the new release. But one of the changes caused me a small headache in upgrading. Following the upgrade, running `apt get update'resulted in