On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:35:57PM -0400, JPS wrote: > There is something that has always bothered me about the scripts in > `/etc/init.d'. Every once in a while I attempt to execute one of these > scripts while logged in as a non-root user. For example, I might type > `/etc/init.d/foobar restart' while having the privileges of user `jps' > (uid=1000). Normally, as the administrator, I would preface the > previous text with the `sudo' command. Sometimes I forget, and as a > result, I get all kinds of bogus garbage printed to my error channel; > and it takes me a confused moment to figure out what went wrong. Try > it with your favorite init.d script today! I have a simple suggested > solution that might help alleviate this awkwardness (without obliging > me to raise my awareness!). How about prefacing the scripts in > `/etc/init.d' with something along the lines of: > > if [ ! $EUID == 0 ]; then > echo "Sorry, this script must run with root privileges." > if > > I am not sure why the script writers do not include something like > this in all of the init.d scripts. Unless I am overlooking something > obvious, maybe we can include this type of thing in debian policy?
I don't think this is the right thing, because almost all init scripts can be run by a non-root user in the Hurd. Also the check isn't good enough for SE Linux. Maybe you could do chmod o-x for the all the init scripts or other things, but IMHO those things should not go into Debian. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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