On 2019-07-09 20:13, John Ralls wrote:
On Jul 9, 2019, at 6:22 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
....
% /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-check
%
....
Normally "%" implies that the shell belongs to root. Don't do that. Always run as a
regular user (the prompt will normally be "$") and use sudo to escalate *only* the
commands that require it--usually because they're touching system directories like
/Library/Perl/5.18/site-packages. E.g. You need to escalate to install or update Finance::Quote,
but not to run it.
John,
I appreciate your concern, and I completely agree that shells should not
run as root normally.
However, as far as I can tell, this prompt is just the result of my
shell (zsh) having a different convention. My $PS1 (which has codes to
generate the prompt contents) is:
% echo $PS1
%m%#
%
The ZSH docs on Prompt Expansion, Shell State
<http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html#Shell-state>
say that %# yields "A ‘#’ if the shell is running with privileges, a ‘%’
if not. Equivalent to ‘%(!.#.%%)’." So, for zsh, my "%" prompt means
"not root".
My user account is an administrator on this mac. I found out a while ago
that I was forever having to log in to the administrator to get apps
installed and use "sudo" and the like. However, I believe that
"administrator status on account" does not mean "shell belongs to root".
I still have to run "% sudo" to cause serious damage.
Thanks as always for your care and diligence.
—Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada
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