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  • accidentally installed pip or pip3 as root

    From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 17 03:42:58 2024
    I accidentally installed pip or pip3 as root and got the warning about
    possible danger to my system. Therefore, I'd like to remove it. Please
    let me know the best commands and thanks in advance.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Jake M on Wed Jan 17 09:09:54 2024
    On 1/17/2024 3:42 AM, Jake M wrote:
    I accidentally installed pip or pip3 as root and got the warning about possible danger to my system.  Therefore, I'd like to remove it.  Please let me know the best commands and thanks in advance.

    https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/do-not-run-pip-as-root

    "Now, pip is the installer/manager for Python modules available via PyPI.

    But it has no idea whatsoever about your package manager.
    It has no idea about RPM format either, nor about what you already
    have installed through the system (yum) packages.

    So when you invoke pip as root, it will more than likely overwrite Python modules
    that were installed via system packages.

    The result of running pip as root, would be a dirty mix of Python modules
    installed via yum package management, and pip installed Python modules.

    Example of breakage
    ...
    "

    So if you ran "pip" as root again, did "pip remove",
    then I would expect damage where a system version of a
    file would be removed. Then if you used the package management
    to remove pip locally, now you'd have a gap-toothed set of
    system python packages.

    Which is better then ? To have "pip remove" the erroneous files,
    or have non-root "pip remove" leave the tainted (unknown version)
    of a file put there instead ? Now you need a means to have your
    package manager reinstall all the system modules.

    When a software developer knows that root usage is destructive,
    not only should they issue a warning, they should "drop dead" on
    the spot, and stop doing shit. If the activity serves no useful
    purpose (damaging tree-installed content), what the hell ? There
    are already some other softwares on your machine, that check for
    root invocation and deny it.

    ( Um, yeah, this looks safe. An official version of this approach might be nice. )

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/57682/find-and-reinstall-packages-with-corrupted-files-without-breaking-anything

    Summary: All I've tried to do here, is find an example of what the
    damage mechanism is. You're the administrator, and now it
    is up to you to deal with a malicious case of tree damage.
    Reinstalling packages is one way to un-taint them.

    Even modifying a script to just produce a scan of the tree
    without fixing anything, is a start.

    Paul

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Jake M on Wed Jan 17 16:54:34 2024
    On 17/01/2024 10:42, Jake M wrote:
    I accidentally installed pip or pip3 as root and got the warning about possible danger to my system.  Therefore, I'd
    like to remove it.  Please let me know the best commands and thanks in advance.

    Easiest: How old is your latest full backup? (solution left as an exercise for the administrator.)
    Otherwise you are liable to find youself in a maze of twisty passages, all alike...

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  • From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 17 15:29:26 2024
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  • From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 17 16:20:33 2024
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  • From Jake M@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 17 20:43:59 2024
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