On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the > standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't > know it was caching the data elsewhere. If you haven't given the magic password, no command is going to have the authority to change non-personal-user data. It's for these kinds of situations that there is a background task that pops alerts up through the taskbar to let people know there's updates waiting (if you want to use it). It does have some elevated privileges. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue