[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] g.extension and GRASS 6.4.1

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 15, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Hamish wrote:

> Hamish:
>>> finally we should consider what happens on Ubuntu and
>>> possibly OSX where by default there is no root pw & sudo
>>> is used;
> William:
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  I've never had any
>> problems running sudo, either directly in the terminal or
>> from a script.  It *always* asks for a password and you
>> type in your login (admin) password, and it doesn't matter
>> that root has a null password.  
> 
> I was talking about the -s flag which runs
>  su -c "make ... install"
> 
> I don't remember if I notified the list or not, but I've now
> added a -u flag to run
>  sudo make ... install
> instead, for those systems which need it.
> 
> 
> so have you been running "sudo g.extension ..." ?
> 
No, i meant sudo for other things.

> 
> Hamish
> 
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