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Currently have a strange situation: wget only works for one user on a system -- and root isn't it.

There are three user accounts, user A, B and root. User A can use wget with no problems. User B and root receive connection timeouts with wget. This results in similar problems with apt-get -- user A can successfully install updates, while user B and root get timeouts when the files are initially downloaded.

Any ideas? This is a Ubuntu system. No firewalls enabled.

BSchlinker
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  • Wait, how can user A install updates if they aren't root? Are you using sudo or su to give them permissions or have you done something else? – WheresAlice Jul 10 '10 at 21:27
  • @kaerast In this case, apt-get is being used to get the source of ntp: `apt-get source ntp`. This is not an operation which requires `root`. – BSchlinker Jul 10 '10 at 21:32
  • @kaerast The interesting thing is that if the above command is run with `sudo` it results in timeouts. – BSchlinker Jul 10 '10 at 21:34

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Maybe it's proxies - proxies are configured in the environment, so might be different for different users, but be consistently set up for those users by their login scripts.

I'd suggest env | grep proxy to find out what is set.

Douglas Leeder
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  • Genius. I was unaware of how proxies were set in Linux -- it never even apparent to me that it was possibly a proxy. – BSchlinker Jul 10 '10 at 21:49