[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 185 fix small issue with RequiresRoot

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 20:23:38 UTC 2009


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Fix small import error on RequiresRoot and make a note to do more 
> fine-grained access control in the future.
> 
> I think ultimately this will become something like LacksPermission(reason).
> 
> As Simo pointed out, doing this will require a thorough understanding of 
> what we're reading/writing and why rather than the cover-all-bases 
> approach of requiring root for everything. We just need to be careful 
> that this doesn't encourable people to screw up their FS permissions 
> just so they can write things.
> 
> rob

This was breaking the tree, pushed under the 1-liner rule.

rob




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