[sbopkg-users] sbopkg-0.30.0alpha1 root privileges

Phillip Warner phillip.c.warner at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 05:02:58 UTC 2009


If you don't like it you could always just use the older version of sbopkg
for now.  If that doesn't work in the future you have the source, so you can
fix it.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>wrote:

> * 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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