On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:59:56PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > We sure do have opposing opinions on that one, Ken. :-) I use sudo in > my scripts so that I am certain that nothing gets installed in /usr > unless I know about it. I always install a package as an unprivileged > user to DESTDIR if I am unfamiliar with it before doing it for real by > the root user. sudo works great for me. > I don't have a problem with that. But I expect my normal builds to run unattended, I don't expect to sit there waiting to be asked to authorise each package's installation. BLFS gave me enough information or pointers to be able to only type my password on the first package of the script, and from that I realised that it is no stronger than running the scripts as root. In the current book we have:
One example usage is to allow the system administrator to execute any program without typing a password each time root privileges are needed. This can be configured as: # User alias specification User_Alias ADMIN = YourLoginId # Allow people in group ADMIN to run all commands without a password ADMIN ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
