Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:23:45 +0100 | From | Lionel Bouton <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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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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