Re: yum as root question

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:23 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
  

Paul Howarth wrote: 
    

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:12 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
  
      

Dear friends:

My yum is now working fine as root. But I am wondering about the past. 
I've been running my new installation for several weeks, and I've been 
installing programs with yum as User instead of as Root.
    
        

I'd be utterly amazed if yum didn't tell you that that hadn't worked
when you tried it:

$ yum install emacs
You need to be root to perform this command.

  
      

How has this 
past installation affected or will affect the current status of yum on 
my computer? It's working fine, I've installed several more programs 
(this time as root), but has my past mistake in any way corrupted or 
messed up the yum database? If so, what would you recommend that I do?
    
        

Tell us *exactly* how you were installing programs using yum as a
regular user.

Paul.
  
      

Dear Paul:

I see your point. Obviously, I was INSTALLING programs only as Root. I
apparently confused "installing" a program as root with my practice of
having yum list programs, both "installed" and "available" as User. I
was running the command "yum list available" and "yum list installed"
as user. That's what temporarily messed up yum. Would doing this have
any permanent effect on the yum database?
    

No. Permissions in Unix/Linux are there to protect you from screwing
things up, even if at times it seems that they're just there to get in
your way. Your database will be fine.

Paul.