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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:58:19 +0100
From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org>
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI
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Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I've always used EUID for the root check, eg:
> > Which is just as bad.
> No, it's better for the reason given: it doesn't require login as
> root. Use of ((EUID)) is also quicker.

 Capabilites are the write access to the target you want to modify in
your eselect module:

test_for_root() {
	# checks if the user has rights to modify /usr/bin/
	[[ -w "${ROOT}/usr/bin" ]] || die -q "You need to be root!"
}

 That's how the the vim and Emacs eselect modules do it.  In my opinion
the best way to check for the rights needed.

V-Li

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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

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