On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jason Chu wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Jason Chu wrote: >> >> Yeah, put those in your public repo too and then I'll release a new >> >> version of srcpac. >> > >> > Ok, almost finished, though one problem remains. Using nobody actually doesn't >> > work because when you su nobody -c <command> the system will enforce a >> > password change. >> > >> > That leaves 3 options: a) we use a dedicated srcpac user in case srcpac was >> > invoked by root or b) make the user configurable in /etc/srcpac.conf or c) >> > invoke makepkg using sudo -u nobody, that however will add sudo as dependency >> > to srcpac. Personally I think c) is the best of them. >> > >> > Other than that I've added the changes, but because of that missing bit the >> > version in my repo is not 100% functional at the moment. >> > >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Michael >> >> I don't mind sudo as a dependency: c) is fine. > > OK then, I've applied that as well and updated the man page too. Now sudo is > used when invoked by root to drop privileges to nobody and su is used to drop > privilegs to the user who called srcpac via sudo (using su here to get the > environment right). From the tests I've done so far everything seems to work > well (though again, it wouldn't harm if someone maybe checked it too). I also > haven't touched the version number ;). > > Regards > Michael > > -- > Michael Klier I'm happy with these changes. Now the only real question that needs to be answered should this be srcpac 0.6 or srcpac 1.0? Jason
