[sbopkg-users] sbopkg-0.30.0alpha1 root privileges

[Phillip Warner]

It'd be a mess to try and sudo everything, and that is assuming the user
actually is configured correctly for sudo.  That really is not KISS.

Instead, what I would recommend is to have a completely separate script for
regular user use.  You could use many of the functions from sbopkg to make
it, and could even place it at /usr/bin/sbopkg so that it is transparent to
the user that it is a different script..  Of course, for even some mundane
features such as rsync to work, the user would have to have write
permissions to the destination folder.

The code gets really nasty when you try to mix root and non-root.

--phillip

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:43 AM, <x11r6 at go2.pl> wrote:

>
> środa, 1 lipca 2009 07:15, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net>:
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:08:44 +0200
> >
> > x11r6 at go2.pl wrote:
> > > New sbopkg-0.30.0alpha1 after "sbopkg -r" as user:
> > >
> > > sbopkg: sbopkg must be run by the root user.  Exiting.
> > >
> > > Is it really necessary?
> >
> > Why would you *not* want to run it as root?
> > What do you hope to accomplish by that?
> >
> > Everything that sbopkg does, for the most part, requires root
> > privileges.  Therefore, you can either run it as root, or the
> > developers can add a lot of potentially complex and otherwise
> > unnecessary code to it enabling it to run with normal user
> > privileges.  The sky is not falling.
> >
> > -RW
>
> Right, question of your assumptions, style of engineering... Usualy I
> build my packages as unprivileged user because it is possible and safe.
> IMHO rising of permissions for is not necessary. Only some commands like
> "chown root:root $PKG" need root privileges to avoid random (user)
> permissions in the package and this is good moment to use "sudo".
> But why rsync?
> I was surprised of the new feature in the new version. That's it.
>
> -Cheers, -X.
>
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