Re: About devices files into sources

Agreed, but not even being able to uncompress as a non-root is bad.  I
think it would be pretty easy to remove the device files and mknod them
from the make install.

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:11, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> 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?
> >>    
> >>
-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

Is your power animal a pengiun?

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