[Spacewalk-list] Permissions

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

John,

>Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:43:37 +0000 (GMT)
>From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>  
>
>On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>
>> Everything looks wonderful, but an upgrade push I scheduled failed.
>> Question: does the spacewalk user, in the browser, have to be root for the
>> client that is being upgraded for the push to succeed?
>
>No.
>
>I'm not even sure your question makes any sense, as there's no relationship
>between the two, nor could there be.  The users within spacewalk exist within
>spacewalk, and nowhere else*.  Also, how can a user 'be root' on the client?

"There's no relationship"? But in lower level terms, those rpms, need to be transferred to a valid account ownership on the client, and then need to be installed by a user with root priviliges. How does spacewalk handle those issues?

         mark