#427: Teach chicken-setup to sudo when installing
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Reporter: John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: chicken-setup | Version: 3.0.0
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by iraikov):
Once a user has been authenticated by sudo, they can use sudo without a
password for a limited time. Implementing your suggestion would very
likely cause users to run a command as root without necessarily realizing
so. For example, I often install the latest SVN verson of Chicken to my
home directory, but sometimes I run the system-wide chicken-setup when I
want to install eggs in my home directory, and of course it fails because
I run chicken-setup without sudo. Hiding the sudo invocation means that I
can easily clobber the global Chicken configuration without realizing
that. And you don't have to have a test machine, I have two qemu images on
my laptop that I use for building the Debian packages, and for testing
installation in RedHat.
Replying to [comment:2 John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]:
> I'm sorry, I don't understand the objection. To run su or sudo requires
providing a password, and there is no alternative to it if you are
installing into the standard places. I just want it used minimally
instead of for the whole chicken-setup run.
>
> Not all of us are fortunate enough to own test machines.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/427#comment:3>
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