Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root?

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 22 August 2003 02:22, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2003 20:14, Rob Cakebread wrote:
> > Does anyone think its a waste to add all the sudo stuff and run as
> > regular user? Or just run the app as root?
>
> i think ideally it would work like this:
> sudo root to fetch (or maybe just portage ?)
> sudo root to pkg_setup
> run as portage to digest/unpack/compile/install
> sudo root to qmerge
> -mike

You only need to be root to install. All the other things should be doable as 
a normal user. Possibly it would mean some maintenance on the /var/tmp dir 
though.

For install, please take a look at libcap. It allows one to have only the 
capabilities you need. That way chmod would be allowed by the proper user to 
make the install fase work correctly. You would probably want to have the ide 
ask for these rights in this case.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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