On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:53:59 +0200 Jonas Große Sundrup <[email protected]> wrote: > You could solve it by configuring sudo to use the user's password for > maintenance, but I simply prefer using the root-password for system > related stuff
sudo can be configured to ask for the target's password rather than your own. man sudoers look for "targetpw". I've only ever used it for a whole user, but according to documentation it's even possible to set it on a command by command basis. I don't know the syntax for that though. > Therefore the idea of giving the user the option to choose the super > user binary to allow flexibility in that regard. If you want to give flexibility you should rather use the value of the variable as the executable to call, not use it in a comparison that falls back to su if the value isn't sudo. That said I don't see the value in adding more complexity to makepkg when sudo can already do everything and more.
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