For example, you have disabled read permission for the "others" group in /etc/nsswitch.conf

I missed this too
sudo?12 - WGET test as non-root user :Code:
inovagora@deb12fnccrecodeau:/tmp/aptdwnldtest$ sudo LANG="C" wget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hello/hello_2.10-3_amd64.deb
Statistics: Posted by fabien — 2024-02-13 11:41