On 27/07/15 20:41, Florian Pritz wrote: > 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. >
I agree that if sudo can be set-up with the restricted permissions in the still proposed, then we should not be adding this to makepkg. A
