On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until > >>> somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my > >>> specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will > >>> not run for anybody but root. > >> > >> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user > >> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing > >> ANYTHING that's global. > > > > +1 > > I get the feeling that Gene isn't talking about the actual installation > of the initrd image. I think he is wondering why something like... > > mkinitrd /tmp/xxx 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE > > needs root privileges to run. Is there anything inherently wrong is > expecting that to work? "dracut /tmp/test.img 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64" works just fine as an unprivileged user Dennis
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