sudo 1.6.4 beta3 now available

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue Jan 1 15:56:26 EST 2002


In message <15408.42909.785965.437967 at hprwp.fc.hp.com>
	so spake Bob Proulx (rwp):

> It would be much nicer if there were different targets for installing
> the files and then setting the uid/gid as a separate target.  This way
> staging area images could be created much more easily.  Perhaps
> something like:
> 
>   install: install-files install-sudoers install-ownerships
> 
>   install-files: install-dirs install-binaries install-man

Well, that really requires that each install-foo target have a
corresponding ownerships target or things like install-binaries
become pretty useless.  Perhaps a better solution is to avoid setting
the permissions and ownership if the invoking user is not root.

 - todd



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