Your message dated Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:04:31 +0100
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has caused the report #688799,
regarding grub-common: grub-mknetdir does not need to be run by root -- move
out of sbin?
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:06:46PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I observe that grub-mknetdir works fine as a non-privileged user.
> Making it an "administrator-only" tool by placing it in /usr/sbin/
> seems like it encourages people to update their tftp server
> directories as root, when they don't necessarily need extra privileges
> to do that.
>
> Maybe it belongs in /usr/bin instead?
>
> 0 dkg@stylus:~/tmp$ /usr/sbin/grub-mknetdir --net-directory=/home/dkg/netdir
> Netboot directory for i386-pc created. Configure your DHCP server to point to
> /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.0
> 0 dkg@stylus:~/tmp$
It's a reasonable argument, yes. If we do this, I think it should be
upstream, as in the following patch. What do folks on grub-devel think?
=== modified file 'Makefile.util.def'
--- Makefile.util.def 2012-09-22 20:19:58 +0000
+++ Makefile.util.def 2012-09-25 21:48:23 +0000
@@ -487,8 +487,8 @@ script = {
};
script = {
- mansection = 8;
- installdir = sbin;
+ mansection = 1;
+ installdir = bin;
name = grub-mknetdir;
common = util/grub-mknetdir.in;
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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