On Sun, 11 May 2008 12:43:19 +0200, Christian Holzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi, > > i wonder why sudo is used in Compile in the newest release because sudo > Compile progX did fine for me. > Because it might break user's home by creating files with supueruser as owner. > 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?! > One broken recipe renders this true? Please do not exaggerate, but try to provide useful data to help us track a possible Compile bug (which I don't think this is). >> > >> > >> 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... > Agreed, and we have a goal to rearrange /F (even remove it) but this will not be implemented until after 015. We have other priorities for 015. -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
