[Gnumed-devel] Re: gnumed in Ubuntu

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> What I had in mind was a (menu-like)(shell) wrapper-script in /usr/bin that
> calls the corresponding script (bootstrap-latest or upgrade_db).
>
> Karsten told me that if you run as root in a standard debian the script can
> bootstrap without any passowords because it will do the sudo magic itself.
>
> What I had in mind was that when a user invokes the wrapper script he will be
> prompted for the root password (sudo).

In contrast to Ubuntu (at least I guess Ubuntu does so) Debian does not permit
any user sudo rights.  So you will have to teach the user to configure sudo
first before this might work.  I guess you mean something like gksu or things
like this which asks for root password.  I admit I never dealt with such stuff
but I might have a look into this.  On the other hand I'm not fully convinced
that providing a menu item (amongst a lot of menu stuff) is better than
providing a well written /usr/share/doc/gnuemd-server/README.Debian.  But
perhaps I'm too text centric ...

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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