2014-03-02 0:41 GMT+01:00 gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org:
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 22:55:20 +0100, Emilien Klein wrote:
One minor challenge that I faced is that I couldn't get the commands to
run using su. With the help of Karsten Hilbert I understood that the
issue was that the user being a
On 02/27/2014 03:37 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:07:35PM +0100, Emilien Klein wrote:
In the pre- and postinst scripts, a command has to be performed as
that user (e.g. make a backup of the database).
[…]
I am wondering what the best way is to fix this. I see 2
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 22:55:20 +0100, Emilien Klein wrote:
One minor challenge that I faced is that I couldn't get the commands to
run using su. With the help of Karsten Hilbert I understood that the
issue was that the user being a system user, she didn't have a shell
(default shell for new
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:07:35PM +0100, Emilien Klein wrote:
In the pre- and postinst scripts, a command has to be performed as
that user (e.g. make a backup of the database).
[…]
I am wondering what the best way is to fix this. I see 2 solutions:
1. Depend on sudo
2. Use su --command
Hi Mentors,
TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or
`su --command` be used?
I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue:
I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its
database. The database is owned by a specific user (not root).
Le 26/02/2014 16:07, Emilien Klein a écrit :
Hi Mentors,
TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or
`su --command` be used?
I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue:
I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its
database.
Emilien Klein emil...@klein.st writes:
TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or
`su --command` be used?
su. You don't want to depend on sudo to ensure that it's available, since
package users may not want sudo installed on their systems. (I tend not
to install it
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