On 8/4/06, George Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
..Dan's work made me think of this.. If we can pick and our user/group and all looks well is there a reason we should keep ... su - $(LUSER)... at all. You will still need root priv or sudo to build the final stages so privileges are not an issue. As usual it is easier to state than code and gremlins pop up in the least likely places.
I should probably start another thread, but here's one other thing that I think could be fixed. When doing the build with sudo, it bombs in a couple places where it expects the superuser path (/sbin:/usr/sbin). Particularly, the chroot call fails in Ch. 6. This is just a minor issue, and it was easy to just add them to my path and restart. Also, it's not really true to the book where you're expected to _be_ root, not just get his privileges. However, I was thinking that it might be more robust to just prefix the standard path somewhere in the build. PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH or whatever. We all know that it get's set at any important time in the build. There's just a couple parts where you're really relying on the host setup. Just a thought, and it wouldn't bother me if it was ignored. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
