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 1OuUN5-0001Hc-F1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:00:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2227E0823; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DBCE0823 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E561B4098 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:59:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.911 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.911 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.312, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id e+0grnRzaTO0 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5691B4091 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuUMS-0001iw-Nk for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:59:36 +0200 Received: from athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.31.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:59:36 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:59:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:59:51 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> 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; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100908 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0e3c9f26-d704-43ea-951a-2afede0ca816 X-Archives-Hash: ab64285040758ef6cb18e2b4d884c7a1 On 09/11/2010 11:24 AM, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: > few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell, and the author wrot= e we > shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. > > Is sudo (or kdesudo ?) a good replacement to that ? > > Kdesudo works good to have xconfig, which is more comfortable that menu= config. > But is it a good manner of making things ? Why sudo? Simply chown -R the whole kernel tree. Only the=20 modules_install and install targets will need root. I've done it like this for as long as I can remember.