On 1/29/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys, bug 4439 describes a problem where a machine (running ubuntu) does not install wine when using wineinstall due to the fact that su dos not work..
Just a couple of questions:
Is this the case (su not working) on all Ubuntu machines, or just something broken on that users' machine?
I believe it's a distro-specific design choice (for security) of Ubuntu, and maybe even Debian.
If it is the case on all Ubuntu machines, the user has mentioned that sudo does work. sudo does require configuration prior to being used, but we could always add into the wineinstall script to configure sudo for the user, or we could ask the user to configure it themself, OR we could fall back to using su if the user answers no to having used sudo.. see below:
If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root password.
What do you think guys?
I think we should see if su exists/works and use it if it does, else use sudo.
-- James Hawkins