[Chicken-hackers] Re: [Chicken-bugs] #427: Teach chicken-setup to sudo when installing

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#427: Teach chicken-setup to sudo when installing
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  Reporter:  John Cowan <address@hidden>  |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect                       |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor                        |   Milestone:       
 Component:  chicken-setup                |     Version:  3.0.0
Resolution:                               |    Keywords:       
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Comment (by iraikov):

 Running sudo from within chicken-setup is also a potential security
 vulnerability. This "running root by default" reminds of Windows and it is
 a terrible practice. I strongly object to having such functionality in
 chicken-setup. Besides, the prudent sysadmin will be far more likely to
 run chicken-setup on a test machine, and create an image that can be
 deployed to the production systems.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/427#comment:1>
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