Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-13 Thread Alan Hicks
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:11 +0100 Serban Udrea wrote: > >> At the moment I use > >> > >> chown -R $UID:$GROUPS . > > > It's wrong, since the standard is to have executables owned as > > root:root. > > Not necessarily wrong, if you run the script as root you get the > right ownership. Moreover

[Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Mauro Giachero
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Serban Udrea < serban.ud...@skmail.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > Hello! Hello! I dare to disagree with other posters.I actually do not understand why > anything else but installing the final package needs root rights. I am > (still) working on some packa

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Eric Hameleers
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Serban Udrea wrote: Marco Bonetti wrote: On Wed, February 11, 2009 11:39, Serban Udrea wrote: Another point is that all the SlackBuilds I looked at have chown -R root:root . which doesn't work if you are a normal user (at least on my machine). At the moment I use chown

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Serban Udrea
Marco Bonetti wrote: On Wed, February 11, 2009 11:39, Serban Udrea wrote: Another point is that all the SlackBuilds I looked at have chown -R root:root . which doesn't work if you are a normal user (at least on my machine). At the moment I use chown -R $UID:$GROUPS . which seems to work OK

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Wed, February 11, 2009 11:39, Serban Udrea wrote: > Another point is that all the SlackBuilds I looked at have > > chown -R root:root . > > which doesn't work if you are a normal user (at least on my machine). > > At the moment I use > > chown -R $UID:$GROUPS . > > which seems to work OK but I d

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Grissiom
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:59, Phillip Warner wrote: > --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Chess Griffin wrote: > > > So, the question is: how many people feel strongly about > > keeping the > > ability to run sbopkg as a non-root user? Could folks > > adapt to using > > sbopkg only as root? > > ROOT-only so

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-11 Thread Serban Udrea
Chess Griffin wrote: Sorry for the cross-post to sbopkg and slackbuilds.org mailing lists but I want to get as much feedback as possible. > Hello! I dare to disagree with other posters. I actually do not understand why anything else but installing the final package needs root rights. I am (s

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-10 Thread mannyslack
Chess Griffin wrote: ..Could folks adapt to using sbopkg only as root? Yes, root only sounds good. Greetings :) ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Arch

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-10 Thread Phillip Warner
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Chess Griffin wrote: > So, the question is: how many people feel strongly about > keeping the > ability to run sbopkg as a non-root user? Could folks > adapt to using > sbopkg only as root? ROOT-only sounds fine to me. The main use of a non-root user for me would be for

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-10 Thread Ricardson Williams
I use only by root On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM, alkos333 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Chess Griffin > wrote: > > Sorry for the cross-post to sbopkg and slackbuilds.org mailing lists but > > I want to get as much feedback as possible. > > > > Currently, sbopkg can be run by

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-10 Thread alkos333
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Chess Griffin wrote: > Sorry for the cross-post to sbopkg and slackbuilds.org mailing lists but > I want to get as much feedback as possible. > > Currently, sbopkg can be run by root or a non-root user. Certain > functions or features can only be done by a root us

[Slackbuilds-users] Moving sbopkg to /usr/sbin and require root

2009-02-10 Thread Chess Griffin
Sorry for the cross-post to sbopkg and slackbuilds.org mailing lists but I want to get as much feedback as possible. Currently, sbopkg can be run by root or a non-root user. Certain functions or features can only be done by a root user, of course, like building and installing packages. However,