https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:07:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1307293645-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1307293645-1 @mirabilos: I do not understand you last sentence. :-( But I sued sudo sh -c because this is what su does, so to mimic su's behaviour with sudo, this is the only solution I think. Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:07:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1307094454-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1307094454-1 Oh, duh. sudo sh -c "…" But people who use that are as “stayed behind on the short bus” as NetBSD® pkgsrc®. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:47:00 +0000 mirabilos https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306573883-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306573883-1 @KiBi: Doesn't it? Well, it has a -rgain-root-command option, that might exist for something (and its manpage also explains why su is not suitable, by the way). I have some debian/rules that chown files, which can only done by root, I think. Or faked with fakeroot; this is what I usually do. Anyway, pbuilder still requires real root privileges, and its wrapper pdebuild has an option to specify which command to use: in fact it is for pdebuild that I wrote my wrapper. Sat, 28 May 2011 09:11:00 +0000 Elessar https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306570283-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306570283-1 dpkg-buildpackage doesn't require root privileges. Sat, 28 May 2011 08:11:00 +0000 KiBi https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306544125-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article10/sudo-su-wrapper/#c1306544125-1 While we're on the topic of sudo & su wrappers, although it does not solve the exact problem your wrapper does, you may be interested in su-to-root in the 'menu' package. Sat, 28 May 2011 00:55:00 +0000 Ben Armstrong