Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

[Ivan Raikov]

  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?

  -Ivan


Thomas Christian Chust <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> wouldn't it be a solution if chicken-setup would downgrade its
> priviliges to a regular user for everything but installation of files
> in case it was run as root?
>
> I would also suggest that chicken-setup should download, unpack and
> compile eggs in a fresh temporary directory instead of the current
> one, unless explicitly instructed not to do so.