Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

[felix winkelmann]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Thomas Christian Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  wouldn't it be a solution if chicken-setup would downgrade its
>  priviliges to a regular user for everything but installation of files in
>  case it was run as root?

I would not change to a different user. It should run as whatever user
I started it. A "-sudo-install" option for using "sudo" exclusively for
installation of files appears to be more transparent to me.

>
>  I would also suggest that chicken-setup should download, unpack and
>  compile eggs in a fresh temporary directory instead of the current one,
>  unless explicitly instructed not to do so.

Yes, that's badly needed.


cheers,
felix