From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] _virsh (Was: Re: zsh virsh completion)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:19:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05372b5d-30fd-4cd3-68f7-e39a1996c73f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25001.1469117569@hydra.kiddle.eu>
Hi,
On 2016-07-21 19:12, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> + _values servers ${=${(S)${${(f)$(sudo virt-admin srv-list)}##*--- }//[0-9]* }} && return 0
>
>> + _values servers ${=${${(f):-"$(sudo virt-admin srv-clients-list --server $srv)"}/ [a-z]*}//[^0-9]} && return 0
>
> I have pushed the change but I've just noticed these two lines. I'm not
> sure it is a good idea to be running sudo within completion functions.
> That can trigger logging and is often denied when you're already root.
> And there may be alternatives like doas.
>
> There's also another instance of this in Mandriva/Command/_rebootin.
>
> Anyone, have any thoughts on how this should be handled? I'm inclined
> to think that users should have to specifically set a gain-root
> style to enable this. Or perhaps it could only trigger if you
> complete after sudo virt-admin.
FWIW, I doublechecked the situation off-list with the virt-admin author
and currently there are no plans to allow non-root/non-sudo users to use
virt-admin (unlike with, e.g., virsh where it is already easy to
configure to allow full access for non-root users).
Thanks,
--
Marko Myllynen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-11 11:52 zsh virsh completion Marko Myllynen
2016-07-11 15:03 ` Roman Neuhauser
2016-07-11 16:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-11 22:07 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-07-12 10:23 ` Marko Myllynen
2016-07-13 4:59 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-18 12:06 ` Marko Myllynen
2016-07-20 6:58 ` [PATCH] _virsh (Was: Re: zsh virsh completion) Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-20 8:36 ` Marko Myllynen
2016-07-21 6:57 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-21 12:32 ` Marko Myllynen
2016-07-22 6:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-22 8:17 ` Marko Myllynen
2016-07-21 16:12 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-07-21 16:19 ` Marko Myllynen [this message]
2016-07-22 7:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-08-31 21:15 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-09-02 5:23 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-02 15:02 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-09-04 4:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-07 6:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-09 22:09 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-09-11 9:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-14 23:19 ` Oliver Kiddle
2016-09-04 21:24 ` Daniel Shahaf
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