On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:24:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:39:36 +0100
> Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>
>> I am being suggested to do away with sudo dependency to run the
>> backend with root privileges.
>
> Wait a minute. Isn't the back end a daemon run at boot time? As such,
> why not run it as root, given that wpa_supplicant requires root
> privileges?

As it is now it is build as a one-shot executable run each time an
action is required. I thought that was intentional. Shouldn't be a
big deal to turn it into a daemon though.

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Irrwahn