[OS X TeX] Unix, sudo and mpm

[David Goldschmidt]

Not wishing to belabor the obvious, but why don't you just give
yourself administrator
priviledges?  You would still have to sudo and enter your password, so
you're not going
to do anything bad by mistake.

David

On 12/13/06, Alex Hamann <Alexander.Hamann at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> All the mail regarding mpm some time ago made me curious and I
> installed mpm according to the instructions provided on the website
> (http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/articles/mpmunix.aspx).
> Here's my question:
> in order to execute updates I have to switch to my admin account
> (need sudo and my normal user account is not on the sudoers list). If
> I install or update a given package by typing e.g.  sudo mpm --
> install=hyperref, I presume this will install the package in
> texmf.local and thus it is NOT going to make this package available
> to one account only (the one which runs sudo while my normal non-sudo-
> capable account would be left out), right?
> However, I got a bit confused by this paragraph on the website
> mentioned above:
> (start quote)
>
> Setting the installation directory
>
> The installation directory is the root of a TDS-compliant TEXMF
> directectory hierarchy. The location of the installation directory is
> determined by the configure script.
>
> The --install-root option lets you set the installation directory at
> run-time. For example, the following command installs the package
> database files in your home TEXMF:
>
>  > sudo mpm --install-root=~/texmf --update-db
>
> (end quote)
>
> Here the texmf in my home directory is mentioned. Does this mean,
> that when I run this command all packages will from then on be
> installed in the texmf folder of my home directory (= the home
> directory of the sudoer)? This I clearly would like to avoid since
> the sudoer is not my normal user account from where I run my tex.
>
> TIA for enlightening me,
>
> Alex
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> please avoid sending me word attachements; see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details
> and background
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