From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuX3P-0004Ig-Dw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:52:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E201CE0A7E; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDD8E0A7E for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so2544254eyf.40 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:51:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=GRPclJdNZPu7k5N9w/Jjwz5Kp2W8ESMPTdUwK7hPK9k=; b=yCsiPdzYoUfKZL/IDxrr5jy2768NxNXL0Gnxv1joqrtw8ZBiPaIk/ozn9GDFXFFRSI Mz7AOttDeGFQyoOqlssAyfhl6Y+zmlKAOGYkSMztzDH54V8lkK68djW/ugg2QpM2J0i7 +w40D7ZlpDdkGYRqodlh0t5wENxnLnmYtrUMU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=bI64xrxrrjlnPTesIX+y1Kp9WxWBvnD8/PUDjBMz19hCPBTrGpkRGfwXoKJhuyPrO5 9BnEKAF3QM8qk3eSB3RqRf9QBwzyVgQp9/6KmIMBj56zbVaJ36zQGRCroznySKLc1OLc dhjJ9P3wVx+tNLS6RpIQclYT5wDcUdgmRO/VQ= Received: by 10.213.15.147 with SMTP id k19mr581677eba.18.1284238313816; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-155.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm6273428eeh.15.2010.09.11.13.51.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:51:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:51:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> <201009112218.05042.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201009112251.48123.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6b2bdeaf-4db4-4271-adb0-fffd153bb477 X-Archives-Hash: 4e67b3972725f4d9309442b0c1910aa0 Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos= =20 Chantziaras did opine thusly: > On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, > > Albert > >=20 > > Hopkins did opine thusly: > >> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: > >>> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the auth= or > >>> wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. > >>=20 > >> I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the > >> most part have done it as root without any problems. > >=20 > > Same here. > >=20 > > The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* > >=20 > > Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those > > sources? >=20 > chown -R I utterly fail to see the point of this prohibition against building as roo= t.=20 Sure, it makes sense when I'm installing perl stuff for my users and last=20 command is sudo make install. But for everything else? =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com