On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:41:21AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> If I want to create /run/foo and /run/foo/bar, both owned by the "foo"
> user, how would I do it using newpath?
>
> 1. I could create /run/foo with owner "foo", and then create
>/run/foo/bar with owner "foo". That can be done
On 01/17/2018 10:21 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> For both A and B above I think you mean owner/group/permissions right?
Yep.
>> 2. It should have a flag (say, --as=[:group]) to make it run as
>> an unprivileged user. Basically a portable "su -c".
>
> I'm not following why I need this.
>
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 03:48:10PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 01/10/2018 04:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >
> > What are we saying newpath should do differently than checkpath if I
> > go this route?
>
> I think this covers everything that we've talked about:
>
> 1. It should refuse to