On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > > The underlying problem is that dmidecode needs access to kmem, and I
> > > can't assume that the person running my configurator will be root.
> >
> > But you can "su -c" (also sudo, I suppose). If that person
> > doesn't have root, then building a kernel isn't going to do
> > them much good.
>
> We've been over this already. No, the configurator user should *not*
> have to su at any point before actual kernel installation. Bad
> practice, no doughnut.
Why bad practice? Anyway, you can:
if [ /proc/ -nt /var/run/dmidecode ]; then
echo We need to run some code as root.
echo -n Enter root\'s\
su -c 'dmidecode > /var/run/dmidecode'
fi
Which provides at least a way to have your config tool
work without having to bloat the initramfs.
Matthew.
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