* Permission Policy
@ 2007-12-28 16:09 Hans van der Meer
2007-12-28 19:20 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-28 19:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Hans van der Meer @ 2007-12-28 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: NTG ConTeXt
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.
Hans van der Meer
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* Re: Permission Policy
2007-12-28 16:09 Permission Policy Hans van der Meer
@ 2007-12-28 19:20 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-28 19:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2007-12-28 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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* Re: Permission Policy
2007-12-28 16:09 Permission Policy Hans van der Meer
2007-12-28 19:20 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2007-12-28 19:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2007-12-28 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, 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.
What error message do you get?
> 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.
sudo luatools --generate works here (Ubuntu Linux). AFAIU, luatools
--generate only reads the relevant files from $TEXMF and writes details to
$TEXMFCACHE. If all directories in $TEXMF are readable by normal user
(should be) and $TEXMFCACHE is writable by normal user (should be), then
you do not even need a sudo.
Aditya
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