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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Jakob L. Kreuze" <zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: 36957@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#36957] [PATCH] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy.
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:34:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rxwyas8.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wofolobu.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org>


Hi Jakob,

>> I haven’t yet looked over the patches, but when I saw that it mentions
>> “sudo” I wondered: is it feasible to support “su” with interactive (or
>> cached) password input as well?
>
> I believe so. This would require two additions:
>
> - Code to interact with the 'su' prompt.
> - Some way for 'managed-host-environment-type' to obtain root's
>   password, which I imagine would be either a prompt or a field in the
>   configuration record.

Sounds good.  IIRC Ansible has support for both sudo and su, so it’s
good that there’s a way to do both in the future.

Thanks!

-- 
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-07 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-07 12:46 [bug#36957] [PATCH] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-07 17:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-07 19:17   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-08-07 20:20     ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-07 20:34       ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-08-07 20:39         ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-07 22:31 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-08-08  0:20   ` [bug#36957] [PATCH v2] " Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-08  8:33     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-08 20:24       ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-14 20:52         ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-08-15  8:03           ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 0/5] Consolidated patches for guix deploy Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15  8:05             ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 1/5] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15  8:05               ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 2/5] machine: Implement 'roll-back-machine' Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15  8:06                 ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 3/5] machine: Automatically authorize the coordinator's signing key Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15  8:07                   ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 4/5] doc: Add description of 'build-locally?' Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15  8:08                     ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 5/5] remote: Use (%daemon-socket-uri) rather than hard-coded path Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-15 11:44                       ` bug#36957: " Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-08-15 15:07               ` [bug#36957] [PATCH 1/5] machine: Allow non-root users to deploy Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-15 16:13                 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-08 20:26       ` [bug#36957] [PATCH v3] " Jakob L. Kreuze

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