Hi folks, I need to run a command as the superuser inside game-data-packager (gdp). Up until now, I've been hardcoding a sudo invocation and depending on sudo. Someone has pointed out to me that depending on sudo does not guarantee that it is configured properly. However, hardcoding su is equally wrong, if the user has installed Debian at priority medium and opted to not enable the root account. What I will probably have to do in the short-to-medium term is adjust gdp to support both methods and do my best to try to figure out what the correct one is for a given system. However I was wondering, is there a better way to handle this situation? I found this old thread "Proposal: su-to-root should be replaced with a system managed by alternatives." <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00728.html> This doesn't look to have got anywhere, and alternatives aren't the fix here anyway (I guess some su-or-sudo wrapper implementing policy, a la sensible-browser might be) Thanks folks, -- Jon Dowland
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