On 06/03/15 22:28, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Package: hwinfo > Version: 21.12-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > hwinfo needs sudo/superuser/root privileges.
Hi Shirish, it does not, it just gives you more information if run with them. > > $ sudo which hwinfo > [sudo] password for shirish: > /usr/sbin/hwinfo /usr/sbin is for "Non-essential standard system binaries" and "This directory contains any non-essential binaries used exclusively by the system administrator" [1]. Although, you may argue that hwinfo can be run without root privileges, its full functionality is only available when you are root. > > Why does it need sudo or superuser/root privileges. AFAI understand > the tool/package does similar work/utility as lspci or any other tool > which shows what parts of a system are there to the user. My guess is that some hardware information is restricted to root. > > The ideal part would be it would be able to probe all the hardware, > generate a report and write it in the user's home directory. By default hwinfo prints what it probed to the standard output. You can redirect it to whatever location you like. > > Looking forward to know. > I'd like to know what your precise problem. Is it that you like to see hwinfo in /usr/bin/hwinfo? If yes, then I'd argue that it shouldn't be there, because (1) it will signal that hwinfo does *not* need root privileges to run without trimmed functionality and this is not the case, and (2) hwinfo has always been in /usr/sbin and so it could break uses that depend on that. Cheers, Tomasz [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRSBINNONESSENTIALSTANDARDSYSTEMBI
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