Can I safely run qbs with sudo?

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I am a bit more cautious these days when I am attempting to solve a what I presume to be a permissions limitation by running an application with sudo, ever since I ran this command:

sudo qtcreator

That completely borked my installation and caused many headaches for obvious reasons. Well, I am now playing around with a new (to me) Qt technology, qbs and I am encountering some errors which I think may be permissions related.

Before I risk many headaches, is it safe to run something like

sudo qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake qt

without having to worry about breaking the integrity of qbs?

You could either edit the OS user settings for current user (to give permission to run as an admin with user-password and without sudo...) — Denis Tsoi, Jun 02 '18 at 14:44
Or you could edit the qbs/qtcreator file to have executable privileges (chmod) as an example for specific users — Denis Tsoi, Jun 02 '18 at 14:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '18 at 19:04

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Running with sudo runs qbs as root, that's all. In particular, commands like qbs config or qbs setup-qt will alter the root user's settings, not your actual user's. And of course, the usual comments apply with regard to security: All commands run by qbs will run with admin rights. Personally, I don't see a reason to do this except when installing a project to a system location.

answered Jun 02 '18 at 19:04

Christian Kandeler

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Basically, I was looking to install a project to a system location. Good to know. – Anon Jun 02 '18 at 20:07

Can I safely run qbs with sudo?

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