Request: Never run as root; call sudo/su only when neccessary

Kiwi / clyde

Next-generation libalpm/makepkg wrapper.

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Request: Never run as root; call sudo/su only when neccessary #12

Closed nogweii closed 14 years ago

nogweii commented 14 years ago

This is a lazyman request, but it would be nice if clyde would prevent being ran as root (yay, security) but when the user asks to do something (like -S) then clyde can call sudo/su. Not sure how that would work, but I think it would be nice.

Kiwi commented 14 years ago

Probably not happening. See here. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=721027#p721027 Also read through the thread to find bash functions that make it behave more like what you want.

nogweii commented 14 years ago

Brilliant! (I use Zsh, btw, but others have already figured that out)

Perhaps you can include a generalized shell script (in some sort of contrib/ folder or w/e) that is shipped with clyde?

EDIT: This version (just removing the c() {} bits) seems to work very well... http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=723161#p723161