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DateThu, 03 Jan 2002 00:23:45 +0100
FromLionel Bouton <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> [...]> The person running the autoconfigurator is not and should not be doing so 
> as root.  Requiring the person to stop and sun sudo just so the 
> autoconfigurator can proceed is exactly the sort of pointless 
> obstacle we should *not* be putting in front of users!
> > (Telling me to rely on dmidecode already being installed SUID is not
> a good answer either.  No prizes for figuring out why.)
> > Ay caramba...please guys, try get your heads out of the internals
> and start thinking from the *useability* angle for once!
> 

Eric I see your point now. But stop me if I don't get the idea behind 
your autoconfigurator :
Guessing the hardware configuration is done in order to ease the whole 
configuration process. After polishing the configuration - no need for 
root priviledge - the user start the build process that doesn't need 
root priviledge either.
But when the user gets the resulting kernel how does (s)he avoid suing 
to root in order to *install* it and its modules ?
I'm not familiar with people configuring and compiling kernels for 
pleasure. They usually want to boot it...

Your whole point here is not to avoid several su instead of 1?

LB.

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