On 13 May 2014 16:15, Cameron Norman <camerontnor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks like it already does this. I assume the user running the command
> manually would not hurt anything, correct?
>

I think the user running the command manually would have the same problems.
Especially as it is a daemon.

Is this is something Debian needs to support or not? Perhaps not, as we
already have a well defined interface for starting it that does the correct
thing.

Do wonder how many packages call su in this manner though.
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> It seems like there is a very real use case for it, I would assume a few
> more than what we have seen. Certainly not anything too formidable though.
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I have written local scripts that do this. Or maybe I used sudo. Can't
remember now.  Probably nothing to worry about in any case, from memory,
they are just short run administration tasks.

AFAIK, using sudo is ok for non-interactive commands, right? Just need to
make sure it is installed, and isn't installed by default. I think somebody
already said that, just double checking.
-- 
Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>

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