Re: [Gretl-devel] (no subject)
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:
Jack,
> I have the feeling that you're not fully aware of the consequences of
"sudo-ing" commands.
[...]
Nice post! I shall reconsider my usage of it, as I do use it for pretty
much anything. I rather think, however, that
. apt-get update
does require me to assert my admin rights and I therefore use -sudo- for
that.
Yes. That's because in a Debian-like system package management is root's
responsibility, so anything other than querying the APT archive (which is
what you do with apt-cache, for example) implies writing to files or
directory that belong to root.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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