lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Jan]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
DateWed, 9 Jan 2002 17:46:37 -0500
From"Eric S. Raymond" <>
SubjectRe: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>:
> > The underlying problem is that dmidecode needs access to kmem, and I
> > can't assume that the person running my configurator will be root.
> 
> But you can "su -c" (also sudo, I suppose).  If that person
> doesn't have root, then building a kernel isn't going to do
> them much good.

We've been over this already.  No, the configurator user should *not* have
to su at any point before actual kernel installation.  Bad practice, 
no doughnut.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

"The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to
destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create...."
	-- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:15    [from the cache]
©2003-2008