Re: About devices files into sources

I agree, but the real problem is creating images as a non privileged user.

Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>However, you still cannot uncompress the tarball unless you're root. 
>This is NOT good.  It would be much better to have the "make install" on
>pxes-base CREATE the device inodes (and chmod +s) rather than have them
>created in the tarball.
>
>On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 22:33, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>    
>>    Is your power animal a pengiun?
>>    
>>


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