Re: [Ltib] LTIB installation on Fedora and Ubuntu / Slight differences in the sudoers file for rpm tool

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Franz,

rpm is in different paths on the different distros.

Regards, Stuart

Franz Trierweiler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During the various experiments I performed with the LTIB installation 
> process, I noticed two different behaviours between Ubuntu (Debian-based 
> distro) and Fedora (Redhat-based distro) with the sudoers file. Here is 
> a short summary:
>
> The first time someone launches LTIB without taking care of modifying 
> the sudoers file, he will get a warning like this:
>
> I ran the command: sudo -S -l which returned:
>
> [sudo] password for franz: Sorry, try again.
> [sudo] password for franz: Sorry, try again.
> [sudo] password for franz: Sorry, try again.
>
> sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
>
> This means you don't have sudo permission to execute rpm commands as root
> without a password.  This is needed for this build script to operate 
> correctly.
>
> To configure this, as root using the command "/usr/sbin/visudo",
> and add the following line in the User privilege section:
>
> franz ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/rpm, /opt/freescale/ltib/usr/bin/rpm
>
> Above is the recomendation you get from a Fedora.
>
> On an Ubuntu, you get a slight different path (note the /usr for the rpm).
>
> franz ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rpm, /opt/freescale/ltib/usr/bin/rpm
>
> This is probably not LTIB related but does someone know why the two 
> pathes are different? Does that come from the fact that Fedoria is 
> initially a rpm-based distro whereas Ubuntu is an apt-based distro (and 
> thus the rpm support comes in addition when we perform apt-get install 
> rpm before launching ltib for the first time).
>
> Regards,
> Franz
>
>
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