Bug#843191: systemd-sysv-install: policy creds not carried forward

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 13:25 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> So, Lennart seems to be not too enthusiastic to add support for running
> systemd-sysv-install on the server side.
> 
> Should we add a simple $(id -u) != 0 to systemd-sysv-install then?
> And what should we do in that case:
> a/ exit 0 with a log message telling the user that update-rc.d could not
> be run due to missing priviliges?
> b/ use pkexec (if available) to run update-rc.d? As said, this would
> result in 4 polkit prompts, which is not too pretty.


In my opinion, for now, euid != 0 with an exit is fine. But you want want to
exit 1, which would justify the actual error cause.

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