Package: etckeeper Version: 0.20 Severity: wishlist Because of file permissions, etckeeper must be run as root, but it would be nice to have the names of the people who committed the changes in the VCS log. If the environment variable $SUDO_USER is set, then it would be nice for the VCS to use that user instead of the default, root. bzr and git both have a --author option to their commit commands. Both require an email-type address, but it's not too hard to parse a name out of /etc/passwd (or use getent). hg has --user, which just takes a user name.
Alternately, if etckeeper took a command line option to specify the user, I could write a simple wrapper script for myself to look at $SUDO_USER and $USER. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii bzr 1.5-1 easy to use distributed version co ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii git-core 1:1.5.6.3-1.1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii mercurial 1.0.1-3 Scalable distributed version contr etckeeper recommends no packages. etckeeper suggests no packages. -- debconf information: etckeeper/commit_failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
