On 05/18/2010 09:52 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> >>>>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until >>>>> somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my >>>>> specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will >>>>> not run for anybody but root. >>>>> >>>> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user >>>> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing >>>> ANYTHING that's global. >>>> >>> +1 >>> >> I get the feeling that Gene isn't talking about the actual installation >> of the initrd image. I think he is wondering why something like... >> >> mkinitrd /tmp/xxx 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE >> >> needs root privileges to run. Is there anything inherently wrong is >> expecting that to work? >> > "dracut /tmp/test.img 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64" works just fine as an > unprivileged user > > Yes... I was going to point out that dracut supersedes mkinitrd. Thanks for bringing that up. -- You auto buy now. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段
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