Permission Policy

Permission Policy

[Hans van der Meer]

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

[Hans Hagen]

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

[Aditya Mahajan]

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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