root access and u-boot-test-hooks scripts

[Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi]

Hi Tom

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:04 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for some feedback and ideas.  Today, in our
> u-boot-test-hooks repository we have 2 cases that use sudo, imx_usb and

I'm not a super expert but is it sufficient to use udev and insert the right
on a group for a particular vendor and product id?

> L4T-based flashing.  Other places that may require root access, such as
> mounting a filesystem instead assume an /etc/fstab entry exists and has
> "user" as one of the attributes.

If you have a docker container --previlege should not be possible to mount
but stay in a different name space?

Michael
>
> Locally, I've extended using "sudo" instead for further access, and so
> far have updated the rpi3_mount script to be like the flashair one and
> support all of the platforms (by naming u-boot.bin correctly for the
> platform) and I've got an easily re-usable ti-omap writer as well (ti-k3
> is harder since you need to build two distinct U-Boots).
>
> Would people rather see more sudo use, or more /etc/fstab setup
> required?  I'm happy to adjust what I've done to not use sudo and post
> that.
>
> --
> Tom



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