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[Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try it now, trunk should be closer to what u want ;)


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So the euid check is being done in python code also, wouldn't hurt to move
> it out of the smithy script since it will fail later in anvils "main
> program".
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> Usage I think can come out if we do that without root being needed. See if
> u comment out the euid check in the bash script, think it will work
> correctly already :-)
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Mercer <dmercer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>  On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 4. This might get more involved, alot of anvils need for sudo is all the
>> pkg stuff it does, all the files it adjusts, all the 'python setup.py
>> --develop' and so on, the initial bootstrap is just like phase 0 of these
>> kinds of commands. I'm sure there are ways around it (ie the user entering
>> the sudo user all the time) just thinking that they may have to enter the
>> sudo user so much we might as well start them off in the sudo user (as it
>> does right now, where it starts as sudo then drops back down to the user
>> running and re-elevates priviligies as needed). Thoughts?
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>> Good points. Maybe a simpler first step would be to allow smithy to emit
>> usage without running as root. This would mean moving or duplicating the
>> euid check into the python code and certainly isn't at the top of the list
>> of things to do.
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>> Everything is always up for consideration, no code is written in stone :-P
>> Write a blueprint if u want, or not, get your org. to give u CLA rights
>> or whatever, haha.
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>> I'll hopefully hear something this week -- fingers crossed! ;-)
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