The 2:nd will prompt for your password when it installs the package.
Aah, uses sudo and then su. I was wondering how pacman would gain the permissions. # check for sudo if we will need it during makepkg execution if (( ! ( ASROOT || INFAKEROOT ) && ( DEP_BIN || RMDEPS || INSTALL ) )); then if ! type -p sudo >/dev/null; then warning "$(gettext "Sudo can not be found. Will use su to acquire root privileges.")" fi fi Does it or shouldn't it just try sudo or check it's allowed and fall back to su as sudo may be there but not allow the particular command or arguments. /usr/bin/grep -C 5 -i sudo /usr/bin/makepkg printf -v cmd "%q " "$PACMAN" $PACMAN_OPTS "$@" else printf -v cmd "%q " "$PACMAN" "$@" fi if (( ! ASROOT )) && [[ ! $1 = -@(T|Qq) ]]; then if type -p sudo >/dev/null; then cmd="sudo $cmd" else cmd="su root -c '$cmd'" fi fi eval "$cmd" -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________