Thanks for that clarification I should have checked it first. The default and hence most likely way of running Synaptic will yield the users home directory problem and synaptics running with root powers from the user home might limit system-wide damage perhaps.
Yes I see but why would someone run first as root? after maybe about 1999 or so protocol was to operate the workstation/server as a user and that's also ubuntu's default set up.. I was also wondering why an install script or other program would have to take over the ownership of any directory I mean what would be the reason this isn't the first time something like this has happened I've even seen them give critical directories world rw permissions.. some sort of poorly conceived post install processing phase perhaps. -- clamav-milter chowns root/arbitrary directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365823 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
