The third party scripts use "sudox", which is a kind of convenience function
that Matjaz uses, but that internally uses sudo. So, yes, you can run the
3rd_party tools as a normal user and then inputting your password when
required, but from my point of view this is problematic. It's better to
check if the user running the scripts is the root user, so that the "sudo"
is used from the outside. This ensures that the whole script will be run as
the root user (and the programmer doesn't need to use "sudo" all the time
they want admin permissions).

Again, this is a personal opinion, but in scripts with long operations such
as this one, the password timeouts may cause some permission problems if one
is not extra careful when writing them, because depending on the timings,
there may be unforeseenable (does this word exist anyway? :P) effects.

Cheers!

2011/4/14 Christopher Brooks <[email protected]>

> Do you need sudo for third party tool install normally?
>
> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Lichti <[email protected]>
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> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:17:17
> To: Opencast Matterhorn<[email protected]>
> Reply-to: Opencast Matterhorn <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Opencast Matterhorn] 1.1.10282 build failure - log file
>
> Hi Ruben,
>
> I did do a clean all (ca) before recompiling. Perhaps a file permission is
> messed up, but it's running via sudo.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Steven.
>
> --
> Steven Lichti
> [email protected]
>
> Sent via the airwaves...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:09:09
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