[Revisor-users] revisor

[Farkas Levente]

Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity) wrote:
>> - and why revisor should have to run as root? [...]
> 
> If you'll take a look into what Revisor actually does (open up the
> source code) it'll become clear that Revisor will need to run as a
> privileged user. Certain actions at this moment cannot be performed in
> user-space.

can you point me to some specific code? i try to look into the code, but
one or two reason would be enough for me. what do revsor? collect some
info, packages and files put them together into an iso file. ok i know
it's complicated, but for what the priovilegized right required? the
only reason may be revisor like to mount the result iso (this can be
skipped in case of non roor user). any other? but even in that case i'd
like to give the oportunity to my users to create install iso images for
a given type of system. i put together the config and they only need to
run revisor without any changes of the config files and at the and the
iso images created and they can use it. revisor would be the best and
easiest tool for this, but i wouldn't like to give root access on out
servers to these users.
this is something building an rpm about 5-10 years ago all packages made
by root, but later it's turn out that isn't required what's more highly
not recommended.

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