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On 11:55 Thu 27 Jan , Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 01/27/2011 11:08 AM, Matthew Summers wrote: |
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> > One question though. Since the 'portage' user has its $home set by default |
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> > to /var/tmp/portage how would you recommend handling the ssh key situation |
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> > since that directory is somewhat special? |
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> Well, I've never tried it, so I don't have any recommendation atm other |
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> than to make sure FEATURES=userpriv is not enabled. |
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> Moving forward, maybe it would make sense to have a notion of a |
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> configurable "fetcher home" that package managers and live/vcs eclasses |
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> would use for the HOME variable only when fetching. For example, the |
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> user could configure this by setting a FETCHER_HOME variable. |
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This might be useful in other scenarios besides fetching that just |
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haven't occurred to us yet. Perhaps we should treat the portage user as |
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a regular user with a regular home directory that can be configured as |
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desired, and flip in and out of that user on demand. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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