[Yum] yum is root-only???

[dmitry at athabascau.ca (Dmitry S. Makovey)]

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Hi everybody,

I need to use yum only for download of packages to central server and faced 
"minor" problem: namely yum refuses getting listing from the server unless 
yum is run by root. What are the reasons for this? I found corresponding 
code:

    # some misc speedups/sanity checks
    if conf.uid != 0:
        conf.cache=1

Can anybody explain side effects of me removing this "check" ?

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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