Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
Alex Jordan於 2014年4月6日星期日UTC+8下午1時23分04秒寫道： On Apr 5, 2014 6:55 AM, Paul mozloverin...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I tried to obtain root privileges on Nightly. If there is another way to make this work without gaining root permission, that will be great. The correct way to accomplish something like this is to use a helper daemon that is setuid root or, even better, use something like polkit. Hi Alex, Thanks for your feedback. I will look into these approaches. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
Hi Mike, Thanks for your advice. I will definitely take your suggestion. The experiment I am currently doing is to run some functions related to udevadm on Nightly. The function udev_monitor_new_from_socket() I added in Nightly did not work while this works well on my another Firefox OS device. That's why I tried to obtain root privileges on Nightly. If there is another way to make this work without gaining root permission, that will be great. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
On Apr 5, 2014 6:55 AM, Paul mozloverin...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I tried to obtain root privileges on Nightly. If there is another way to make this work without gaining root permission, that will be great. The correct way to accomplish something like this is to use a helper daemon that is setuid root or, even better, use something like polkit. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
On 2014-04-02, 1:46 AM, Paul wrote: I strongly suspect this happens due to the permission issue while Nightly does not allow me to gain root privileges. However, this is necessary for me to complete my experiment. How can I obtain a decent permission while I do this? strace -f should see you right as far as specifically diagnosing what's failing is concerned; I reiterate that this is a terrible idea - see here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353203 for just a taste as to why, and please don't deploy whatever you're doing here to a production multi-user system. But still, good luck? Maybe we could give you better advice if you could tell us a bit more about what you're trying to do with your experiment. - mhoye ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
Hi, When I added code with a function udev_monitor_new_from_socket(), the Nightly stops executing everything while this function returns an error fd. I strongly suspect this happens due to the permission issue while Nightly does not allow me to gain root privileges. However, this is necessary for me to complete my experiment. How can I obtain a decent permission while I do this? Thanks ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
Hi, I have created a new thread in Nightly and the function can be launched while I executed the script: ./mach run Q1: Because my function is related to kernel, root privilege is necessary. Hence, I got the error message as shown in the following: root privileges needed to run this function--- Q2: By running the function with sudo sudo ./mach run Things seem running well. However, the browser can not be launched and it ended without any notice. The following log shown on my terminal root privileges obtained... myDesktop$ Any feedback will be highly appreciated. Thanks ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
On 3/31/14 4:56 AM, Paul wrote: Q1: Because my function is related to kernel, root privilege is necessary. Hence, I got the error message as shown in the following: root privileges needed to run this function--- What function are you talking about? Something in Firefox already, or new code that you are adding? Q2: By running the function with sudo sudo ./mach run Things seem running well. However, the browser can not be launched and it ended without any notice. Firefox is not meant to run with root privileges, and I actually thought we checked and refused to launch in that case. I can't find the bug about it now, though. In any case I strongly discourage running Firefox as root. --BDS ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox build (Nightly) thread with root permission
Hey BDS, Thanks for your reply. 1. The function I mentioned is the new code I added. 2. I understand that running Firefox with root privileges is not encouraged. However, due to my experiment is related to kernel, root privileges will be necessary to my program. I wiped out my code which was added in Nightly and run sudo ./mach run ---This runs well and Nightly can be launched. However, when I added my code back to Nightly and rebuilt the code, It ended without Nightly launched. I am still confused by this. Please let me know if you have any comment. Thanks ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
