Re: About devices files into sources

Creating the device nodes and setuid programs are the operations needing
root privileges.
To prevent this error, pxesconfig check for those privilege but if you
know what you're doing you can add   --nonrootinitialize to avoid the
check.

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 13:36, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
    On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:58, Ghe Rivero wrote:
    > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:06, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
    > > I think the best option is to force a root install because devices are 
    > > not the only files that need  to be installed as root there's one setuid 
    > > file (suid-admin).
    > 
    > 	That's true, but this way, you are forcing everybody that wants to take
    > a look to the sources (just look, not install) needs to have a root
    > account in the machine to untar de sources properly. That's way i think
    > that this scripts (makedevices.sh or whatever) should be included in tha
    > Makefile under an install rule. Just an opinion.
    
    I completely agree, as there is no REQUIREMENT for root access to use
    PXES, provided the machine has been properly configured.
    
    -- 
    Chris Gianelloni
    Developer, Gentoo Linux
    Games Team
    
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