[gobolinux-devel] [patch] allow non-superusers to query GoboHide version/help

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez at wait4.org
Sat Oct 21 22:20:28 UTC 2006


On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:31:00 +0200
"Jonas Karlsson" <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:

> It looks ok, but I don't see the point of printing the help for regular  
> users, as you must be superuser (or run with sudo) to use the script  
> anyway.

What if you're reporting a bug or something and you need to su just to check
what version of GoboHide you have?

Anyway, --version and --help are options that any user can/may use, you
shouldn't need superuser privileges just to check that.

Am I missing something obvious here?

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