any reason why system-config-kickstart requires root?

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Mon Apr 24 13:42:23 UTC 2006


> I can't think of one, and running
> 
> /usr/share/system-config-kickstart/system-config-kickstart.py
> 
> manually seems to work just fine (I saved my kickstart file without incident).
> 
> Should I file a bug?

It requires root because it uses pirut for the package selection screen,
and that requires root because it uses yum, which may need to update the
cache files in /var/cache/yum.  It's working as intended.

- Chris




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