Re: MBF (Re: correct use of su)

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

On 13 May 2014 16:15, Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com> wrote:

It looks like it already does this. I assume the user running the command manually would not hurt anything, correct?

I think the user running the command manually would have the same problems. Especially as it is a daemon.

Is this is something Debian needs to support or not? Perhaps not, as we already have a well defined interface for starting it that does the correct thing.

Do wonder how many packages call su in this manner though.

It seems like there is a very real use case for it, I would assume a few more than what we have seen. Certainly not anything too formidable though.

I have written local scripts that do this. Or maybe I used sudo. Can't remember now.  Probably nothing to worry about in any case, from memory, they are just short run administration tasks.

AFAIK, using sudo is ok for non-interactive commands, right? Just need to make sure it is installed, and isn't installed by default. I think somebody already said that, just double checking.

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>