Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)

Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:41:59 +0000 (GMT)


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.

Matthew.

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