problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]

From	Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?]
Date	2017-06-18 22:50 +0200
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Posting here in case this might  help others who may be encountering the
same problem.

I  really appreciate the enhanced security provided for apt  in the new
release. But  one of the changes caused me a small headache in upgrading.
Following the upgrade,  running `apt get update'    resulted in this
warning:

Reading package lists... Done
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file
'/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_InRelease'
couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission
denied)

which meant,  I suppose, that I wasn't  getting all the benefits of the new
regime.  After a bit of reading and a lot of trial and error I was able, I
think, to resolve the issue by manually changing the owner attribute of
the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/:

     chown -R _apt.root   lists

(executed in /var/lib/apt/ )

It doesn't seem to be enough to have /var/lib/apt/lists  set to rwxr_xr_x
if it's owned by root.

If anyone has a different or better solution, I'd be curious to hear about
it,

Jim

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problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to  Stretch [solved?] Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu> - 2017-06-18 22:50 +0200
  Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?] Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-06-18 23:30 +0200
    Re: Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie  to Stretch [solved?] Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu> - 2017-06-19 20:40 +0200
      Re: problems with _apt user privileges in upgrading from Jessie to Stretch [solved?] Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-06-19 21:00 +0200

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