Re: Sensible Computing (TM) [was Re: 2.2.13 - modules - failed dependancies]

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Al Hudson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bob Ham wrote:
> 
> > > you don't have to be root to
> > > compile.
> > 
> > Of course, that goes without saying.  No-body here is messing around in 
> > /usr/src with root privelages, right?
> 
> Actually, there's no danger compiling stuff as root as opposed to some
> other user. Running the stuff you've compiled, maybe, but the point about
> not doing stuff as root is so that you don't hose the whole machine when
> you goof - there's no reason to be particularly scared of doing stuff as
> root, as long as you know what you're doing. I generally compile my kernel
> as root because it saves hassle when I come to 'lilo' and stuff - set user
> is three keypresses too many ;)

However, running 'make' on a makefile that you have no reason to trust is
a bad thing to do as root.

A.D.

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