Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

[Ivan Raikov]

  Ok, will do. I will also add some optional privilege de-escalation
functionality for the unpack and compile phases, if it is easy to
implement.

   -Ivan


"felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>   I like those ideas. Indeed, some Unix tools check if run under su or
>>  sudo (i.e. effective user id != real user id), and use superuser
>>  privileges only for system-wide operations. And using a temporary
>>  directory in $USER/tmp or /tmp for the installation should have become
>>  the default behavior a long time ago.  Does anybody want to look at,
>>  or shall I make those changes to chicken-setup?
>
> If you would indeed fix the tmpdir thing, I'd be grateful.
>
>
> cheers,
> felix