mintupdate / apt requires access to my home directory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
apt (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
__Problem__
When running mintupdate I encounter the following error:
Unable to change to /home/jedwards/ - chdir (13: Permission denied)
My home directory is NFS mounted and secured with kerberos. The root user has no access to my home directory and thus the chdir failes.
I encounter the same problem if I run:
cd /home/jedwards
sudo apt-get update
__Expected__
I don't think changing the behavoir of apt is something for the Linux Mint team but mintupdate should not require access to my home directory.
__Reproduction__
Run mintupdate as a user with an NFS mounted home directory to which root has no access (either root squashing or kerberos).
__Proposed solution__
Modify /usr/bin/mintupdate to chdir to "/":
See my modified version attached.
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Oh and I have this problem on Mint 13 (Maya) LTS