Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:46:37 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) |
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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>
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