On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +0000, Stroller wrote > > On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 4:55 pm, Gleb Klochkov <glebiu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi. Try to use sudo with no password for eix-sync. > > I'd really rather not. Thanks, though.
Being in group "portage" is not enough. That merely lets you do emerges with "--pretend". "emerge --sync" modifies files in /usr/portage. Files and directories in /usr/portage/ are user:group root:root. Therefore you *NEED* root-level permission to modify them. No ifs/ands/ors/buts. The overall easiest method is to (as root)... * "emerge sudoers" if it's not installed * "visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/001" (or whatever you want to call the file) * set up the file. Here's a fragment from my system, with user "waltdnes" and machine name "i660" waltdnes i660 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hibernate waltdnes i660 = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/fdisk -l I could manually type the command with sudo, but I'm lazy. In my /home/waltdnes/bin directory, I have a file "hb" #!/bin/bash sync sleep 15 sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate and file "fdl" #!/bin/bash sudo /sbin/fdisk -l To sync the machine, I could add to /etc/sudoers.d/001 waltdnes i660 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/emerge --sync and create (as waltdnes) /home/waltdnes/emsy #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/emerge --sync For security, I strongly recommend that the full path of the executable be specified, as well as any options. Do not use the $* commandline parameter in the sudoers file. It probably works, but is too wide open. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
