Michael Below schrieb am Montag, den 08. Februar 2010: > The bug report was a bit premature: when talking it through on IRC I > learned that it is wrong to run sa-compile using sudo, because $HOME is > then still pointing to the user home directory, and that I should use > --sudo instead. > > I think in a perfect world "sudo sa-compile" would respect the > existing file ownership, but for the time being, this limitation of > sa-compile should be mentioned more clearly in the man page. I suggest > adding a sentence like this at the end of the --sudo section: > > "Calling sudo directly (e.g. "sudo sa-compile") is usually not > recommended since the environment is not sanitized." As I told you on IRC: if you run software as root you should expect that you end with files that root created.
The docs may be improved a little bit, but this is only wishlist. I fail to see any bug here. Just my 2 cent Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
