History infomation

[tim.lauridsen at gmail.com]

I would be nice, current version of yumex and the future branch is doing
all the browsing and searching af normal user and first need root when
doing changes to the system
except for the history, that need root access to view, I seems rather
inconsitance :)

Tim


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Josh Bressers <bressers at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 09:04 +0200, tim.lauridsen at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Is there any reason while the yum history infomation is not available
> when
> > > running as not root, all other information is available
> >
> >  It all depends on the permissions on /var/lib/yum/history, it wasn't
> > that way by default but then:
> >
> >
> > commit adf5ce0d5d8f0066515ca85494f8b217500d7ad2
> > Author: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
> > Date:   Wed Dec 9 13:15:08 2009 -0500
> >
> >     make sure history dbs are readable only by root - suggested by Josh
> > Bressers
> >
> > ...my guess is that it was to do with the scriptlet output? Josh do you
> > know / can you remember?
> >
>
> I looked through my mail from that time, nothing was there (sadly I lack
> IRC logs).
>
> I honestly have no idea why we would have done this. It seems like a silly
> change. I'll try to remember why this was done, but I don't see why it can
> be undone if you so desire.
>
> Thanks.
>
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