ssu correct use (privileges)
hi volks,
using:
ssu release 2.0.2.48 version --dup
Is it correct to use these commands without devel-su privileges?
This question jumped into my mind. IIRC I've run it without prior escalation to root privilege and it worked. I feel this as a strange behaviour and I fear that my problems (SIM, Exchange, downgrade request to 2.0.2.43) are just related to permissions problems.
regards
Strangely and unfortunately, the package management (ssu, pkcon, zypper) in Sailfish does not require root privileges. I and many others see it as a serious bug and a security concern but Jolla is clearly not bothered.
Your problems are unlikely to be related. I have been lucky so far but if you read the forum, you will see a lot of people who upgraded the "approved" way through the GUI reporting similar problems.
pichlo ( 2016-08-24 10:04:15 +0300 )editI wondered this too. I also have this downgrade request and wondered whether it results from the experience I related in this thread. I naturally escalated to root privilege to do that (at the time I thought su-devel was jolla's equivalent to sudo) but didn't on the dup commands - which doesn't feel right.
DaveRo ( 2016-08-24 12:33:13 +0300 )edit