GNU bug report logs - #36957
[PATCH] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: zerodaysfordays <at> sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze)

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 12:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>

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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
To: 36957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: zerodaysfordays <at> sdf.lonestar.org
Subject: [bug#36957] [PATCH] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy.
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:17:22 -0400

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Hi Jakob,
>
> I haven’t yet looked over the patches, but when I saw that it mentions
> “sudo” I wondered: is it feasible to support “su” with interactive (or
> cached) password input as well?

Maybe a more important question: if this turns out to be desirable, is
there a path forward to add it later?  If that's true, I'd suggest we
move forward with merging the patch and worry about how to add the
option at a future time.
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