[sbopkg-users] sbopkg-0.30.0alpha1 root privileges

Chess Griffin chess at chessgriffin.com
Sun Jun 28 23:33:03 UTC 2009


* x11r6 at go2.pl <x11r6 at go2.pl> [2009-06-28 15:08:44]:

> Hi!
> 
> New sbopkg-0.30.0alpha1 after "sbopkg -r" as user:
> 
> sbopkg: sbopkg must be run by the root user.  Exiting.
> 
> Is it really necessary?
> 
> Cheers, -X.
> 

Based on feedback here on the ML, and based on discussions with my
co-developers and others, it was decided that, for security, code
maintenance, and other reasons, it was best to require root privileges,
just like pkgtools and slackpkg.

-- 
Chess Griffin
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