I am writing a script that runs in the background under the user account that, among other things, updates the firmware. However, when I run /bin/update, it says ‘Error: Update is not permitted.’ Does anyone know how to permit the user account to start an update from the terminal?
I have questions first: which firmware are you using? Second did you attached a firmware file (through UMS Universal Update a.e.) first before trying?
10.04.100 is the one that I am trying to upgrade to. The current firmwares vary, but the minimum is 10.01.310.
The firmwares are applied to the thin clients, and the upgrade works if I run /bin/update as root.
Would you mind to share the script, if not public as PM?
I just checked it, the update process needs to run in a root context (which makes definitely sense), but some tested tweaks didn‘t change that security behaviour. You could go another way and use systemd schedule like described in our github under Compare:
github.com/IGEL-Community/IGEL-Community.github.io/wiki/Scripts:-Custom-Commands
Thank you, that does look helpful. I was hoping to have only one script running, instead of multiple ones, since that is easier to track. I was also hoping for the script to run as a user, since most of what it does is only for the user (such as running a session). What is odd to me is that there is a ‘firmware update’ ‘application’ that can be enabled for the user to run from the menu.
I traced it a little more, and might have found something… Enabling the firmware update application for the user menu adds /usr/share/applications/firmware_update_000.desktop.
This file runs ‘appwrap firmware_update0’.
That file runs /config/sessions/firmware_update0.
In turn, it finally runs /config/bin/firmware-update.
If I run /config/bin/firmware-update as a user from the terminal, it updates the firmware as I want.
Ok, let me check that!
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