Michael Below schrieb am Montag, den 08. Februar 2010:

> The bug report was a bit premature: when talking it through on IRC I
> learned that it is wrong to run sa-compile using sudo, because $HOME is
> then still pointing to the user home directory, and that I should use
> --sudo instead.
> 
> I think in a perfect world "sudo sa-compile" would respect the
> existing file ownership, but for the time being, this limitation of
> sa-compile should be mentioned more clearly in the man page. I suggest
> adding a sentence like this at the end of the --sudo section:
> 
> "Calling sudo directly (e.g. "sudo sa-compile") is usually not
> recommended since the environment is not sanitized."
As I told you on IRC: if you run software as root you should expect that you
end with files that root created. 

The docs may be improved a little bit, but this is only wishlist. I fail to
see any bug here. 

Just my 2 cent

Alex




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