On 6/6/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, after making my change, my Rootless environment only gave me my new 'bypassing sudo' message from within SignProgram. Signing- related functions within Functions/File seem to have quite a few sudo_exec calls. Maybe those should be taken out and SignProgram should check its permissions and call Verify_Superuser at the beginning, like SymlinkProgram does?
Don't think so. IIRC, Carlo implemented it this way because, while many things in the script have to run as root, gpg itself has to run as the regular user, so that it uses their private key. Maybe we could flip things around and run gpg with "sudo -u $regular_user" instead?
> Another 3/4-baked idea: > To have the scripts playing nicely with different/hostile > environments, I came up with a centralized configuration scheme in > Directories.conf, so that the scripts can use "ifdefs" with "if > Dir_Set Feature". One thing we could do is remove all those "if [ > $ROOTLESS_GOBOLINUX ]" and replace them with proper Dir_Set's, adding > a single "if rootless" block directly in Directories.conf (or have the > CreateRootless script perform the needed changes to the > Directories.conf defaults, don't know what's cleaner). CreateRootless generating its own Directories.conf makes more sense to me, and it reduces the amount of sh code in Directories.conf. On the other hand, it'd mean Rootless people would be regularly prompted to replace Directories.conf with one that'll break their entire system every time UpdateSettings was run.
Good point. I just had a crazy idea of a 'hints file' with suggested default answers for UpdateSettings. It could be added to packages on demand, as delicate situations such as this arise. Could become a pain to maintain, though.
Maybe UpdateSettings should be aware of a Resources/Rootless/Defaults directory?
I'm not keen on special-casing stuff for Rootless in the scripts. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
