I'll forward it to our developer/sys-admin since it's him that doesn't
want to give me root access, yet want's me to make a livecd, because
I'm the one that's done it. unfortunately I'm not a developer so I
have little hope of implementing what your saying.
I appreciate your answer. However, I wish that developers would stop
assuming we all have developing abilities. mine are limited to basic
shell scripting. I may learn other scripting languages at some point
but I don't have time now, and this isn't that big of an issue.
I do appreciate however your explaining the exact technical
difficulties of the situation, because even thought I can't fix the
problem I understand it.
On 11/27/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well, it was more of a theoretical "sure". And anyway, you seem to have missed
the "can chroot" part of my reply. Normal users cannot chroot under "normal"
setups. Also, your user would need to be able to create arbitrary bind mounts.
Currently, the check that generates that error just checks the current UID and
bombs if it's anything other than 0 (root). I'm sure if somebody (how about
you?) contributed code to query the kernel for certain abilities (like
chrooting), the catalyst developers would be more than happy to add it in to
allow non-root catalyst use where the user has the necessary abilities.
Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I had access to what I think are all the files and directories needed.
> I put everything in custom locations. that I could write to. but
> catalyst complained I needed to be root. and it was catalyst not a
> permission error.
>
> !!! catalyst: This script requires root privileges to operate
>
> On 11/27/06, Andrew Gaffney
<agaffney-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As long as you run it as a user that has access to all the files/dirs
>> that
>> catalyst touches *and* can chroot (probably only doable through
>> selinux and
>> friends), sure :P
>>
>> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> > can catalyst be run without root access?
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