Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-30 Thread n0dalus
On 1/30/06, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just > complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root > password. > /etc/sudoers is not usually world-readable. The way to do it would be with `sudo -l`, but this

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
James Hawkins wrote: If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root password. That is apparently distro-specific, as the last time I used sudo on my Slackware 10.2 box (a few months ago), as well as on my room

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread Jesse Allen
On 1/29/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's simply delete the wineinstall script. > It's not really needed anymore, it was just > there for compatibility. > > People have been talking about doing it for some time: > http://winehq.org/site/?issue=227#Nuking%20Wineinstall > perhaps now's

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread Chris Morgan
I've always liked wineinstall, even made a handful of improvements to it. Wineinstall was useful for setting up a default configuration but now that we setup a default configuration automatically with wineprefixcreate it doesn't seem necessary anymore. Users that compile via source should be f

re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Let's simply delete the wineinstall script. It's not really needed anymore, it was just there for compatibility. People have been talking about doing it for some time: http://winehq.org/site/?issue=227#Nuking%20Wineinstall perhaps now's the time. - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread James Hawkins
On 1/29/06, n0dalus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/30/06, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just > > complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root > > password. > > > > /etc/sudoers is not usually worl

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread James Hawkins
On 1/29/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, bug 4439 describes a problem where a machine (running ubuntu) > does not install wine when using wineinstall due to the fact that su dos > not work.. > > Just a couple of questions: > > Is this the case (su no

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread n0dalus
On 1/30/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, bug 4439 describes a problem where a machine (running ubuntu) > does not install wine when using wineinstall due to the fact that su dos > not work.. > > Just a couple of questions: > > Is this the case (su no