Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs gnuradio install and sudo

[Marcus D Leech]

Because your PYTHONPATH and other environment variables aren’t inherited by a 
sudo shell by default. 

Use the -E option to sudo. 



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> On Jul 22, 2019, at 11:54 AM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Your sudo call resets the environment, and that includes things like
> PYTHONPATH, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> You need to add the right options to sudo.
> 
> I'll carefully point out that the code in tuntap_pdu isn't really safe
> by any means. You generally should probably avoid running GNU Radio as
> root.
> 
> The easiest whilst-still-safe way forward:
> 
> just run `sudo ip tuntap add grtunnel mode tun user  sumit` (assuming
> sumit is your unprivileged user) and then, run your program as normal
> user.
> 
> Sadly, haven't tested that.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcus
> 
>> On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 16:55 +0200, sumit kumar wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> When I try to run any gnuradio program with sudo (inside pybombs 
>> environment), it simply throws the error 
>> 
>> ImportError: No module named gnuradio
>> 
>> For example when I try to run tunnel based programs, which need ioctl calls 
>> and hence sudo or root. 
>> 
>> Without sudo it says operation not permitted and with sudo it says 
>> ImportError: No module named gnuradio
>> 
>> Solution ? :-/ 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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