From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Permission Policy
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:20:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47754C69.2080007@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99F5377B-360E-4024-BCEB-FE528A60DB3F@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I ran into trouble with "luatools --generate"
> which does not seem to work with "sudo luatools --generate"
> The seem applies to texmfstart and friends.
>
> Why this manco? I want to keep my system as safe as possible
> especially regarding applications and stuff that takes a lot of time
> installing (like the texlive system).
> Therefore I have this in an administrator account (root:wheel).
> Cannot ConTeXt cope with such a scheme? All it has to do is honor
> sudo, apparently.
i'm happily unaware of such problems -)
there is no built in "if sudo then quit" or so, i.e.\ no assumption is
made to its usage; i leave this to the unix experts
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-28 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-28 16:09 Hans van der Meer
2007-12-28 19:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-12-28 19:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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