On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:23 AM, David Sterba <dste...@suse.cz> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:45:10PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:26 PM, David Sterba <dste...@suse.cz> wrote: >> > >> > Works for me without the root password on a Tumbleweed installation >> > (without apparmor/selinux). >> >> Are you then referring to a btrfs partition mounted with >> user_subvol_rm_allowed? > > The context was 'does creating a subvolume require root password'.
Well I don't know about you, but I'm just running an openSUSE 13.2 system updated to Tumbleweed here, and even if I just hit "btrfs" enter (no sudo, no btrfs commands) on my regular (non-root) prompt, I am getting: $ btrfs Absolute path to 'btrfs' is '/usr/sbin/btrfs', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). $ ... so what to say of btrfs subvol, whether followed by crea or del! On Kubuntu Trusty, doing the above at least gives me the help list of btrfs subcommands and only when I try to execute some actual *action* which requires privileges (like accessing some root-read-only file or such) do I get an error message for not using sudo. For some (wierd) reason SuSE (possibly thinking it's being helpful) is requiring me to use sudo and enter password for even just *running* the btrfs executable. If there were a way to disable this and/or get the Kubuntu behaviour it'd be great (but of course this is not a SuSE forum!). What seems weird to me here is that it says it *may* require root privileges but simply drops me back to the prompt -- it doesn't seem to check whether the executable *actually* requires root permission. Granted, if it's under /sbin or /ust/sbin, it probably does, but the wording is quite strange, and the behaviour stranger. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
