On 5 May 2015 20:54:18 CEST, Anders Ingemann <[email protected]> wrote: >On 5 May 2015 at 17:34, Eirik Schwenke <[email protected]> >wrote: > >Is there any interest in making bootstrap-vz more suitable to use as a >> regular user? (Clearly yes, if possible) >> >I am not quite sure I follow. bootstrap-vz is made for sysadmins who >have >some fair knowledge of how Debian works, could you explain what you >mean by >regular user?
I meant under a non-root user id. For automation, and general testing - and peace of mind. >I might prefer running as few codesections under sudo >> >Funny you should say that. About 6 months ago I was thinking about the >same >thing, the best way to do this would be to launch bootstrap-vz as root, >but >immediately suid to some other user and the only go back when needed. I >think using sudo directly might become a little messy and non-pythonic. Part of the point would be to minimize the amount of code one had to audit for root privileges. It would probably be best to figure out a way/few alternatives that avoided root all together. By "becomming root" I kind of meant to draw inspiration from dpkg-buildpackage etc (with choice of "run as actual root" (like now), call out to sudo/su, or none (I don't immediately see a use-case for "fakeroot" with bootstrap-vz)). -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
