Excerpts from Christian Heinz's message of Tue Dec 07 12:11:33 +0100 2010: > > What is the benefit of "falling partially" over "falling completely". > > I'm wondering if there shouldn't be check if dracut is run by non-root > > and then exit immediately. Normal user cannot read some files (e.g. > > /bin/mount), so what's the point? > > Not having read permission for /bin/mount as normal user looks weird to > me. I use dracut on Arch Linux, though I also just tested on a Fedora VM > and everything builds/runs just fine without root permissions. Are there > any compelling reasons to restrict image generation to root only? Am > I missing something fundamental? If it builds just fine with your patch, that's cool. Maybe it's a good starting point to consider permissions policy in Gentoo. :-) Cheers, -- Amadeusz ÅoÅnowski PGP key fpr: C700 CEDE 0C18 212E 49DA 4653 F013 4531 E1DB FAB5
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