Christian Holzberger wrote:
> hi,
>
> i wonder why sudo is used in Compile in the newest release because sudo
> Compile progX did fine for me.
>
Using sudo has no effect, since unsudoing is performed when launching
scripts, and sudo is only used when necessary with $sudo_exec.
> i dont get the point of using sudo too.
> -> some comments follow
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 23:24 +0200, Daniele Maccari wrote:
>
>> Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Daniele Maccari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ok, I finally solved the problem (if right or wrong, I don't know).
>>>> Attached
>>>> you'll find the patch, please let me know.
>>>> This way files on which current user has no permissions should be correctly
>>>> managed, as well as globbing (which sudo prevents from working, since the
>>>> command is first parsed by shell, and the permission problem arises).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Dude, this $sudo_exec thing is becoming ridiculous. Maintaining
>>> Scripts and Compile *used* to be a simple thing. What's wrong with
>>> requiring superuser access to launch Compile?
>>>
>
> especially if all recipes need attention again, and using recipes to fix
> permission problems just makes no sense?!
>
>
This is one thing I share with you. I'd prefer not using recipes to fix
what can (probably must) be fixed somewhere else if it doesn't bring any
real advantage or isn't really necessary.
>>>
>>>
>> To be honest, I don't really know. The most annoying issues, in my
>> opinion, would be the fact that all /F/C entries would be gobo:sys
>> owned, nothing more.
>> If we can find a solution to this I'd have no problems in dropping sudo.
>>
>
> whats the problem with havin /F/C being superuser only?
> users should have a ~/.Compile or something to do the thing right,
> letting the user write to /F/C can raise security issues...
>
What do you mean by .Compile? I'd like to have sources and archives to
be freely usable by users (at least users in the sys group). But I must
admit that's mainly due to my laziness.
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