Task #6952
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- Subject changed from packaging: run as a non-root user to ppa: run as a non-root user
- Target version changed from TBD to Packaging/PPA
- Status changed from New to Assigned
- Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Peter Manev
- Priority changed from Normal to High
One question is: when should we do this? Seems risky to do it in a patch release?
Victor Julien wrote in #note-4:
One question is: when should we do this? Seems risky to do it in a patch release?
Yes, it can be risky. You'd have to get all the chmod's and chown's right in the upgrade script. Would still need to do that when upgrading to a new major release, just breakage is a little more acceptable at a major version. I think making it a goal for 8.0 would be good.
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