Coywolf Qi Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2005/12/2, Peter Williams <[email protected]>:
[...]
> > Personally, I just use "sudo make install" or "sudo make
> > modules_install" to do installations as an ordinary user. No need for
> > special scripts or modifications to the build procedure.
> That's rather insecure. You have to add /usr/bin/make in your sudoers,
> then an malicious Makefile could do harm. I'm being paranoid. But we
> all are since we avoid to use root.
Oh, come on. If somebody can mess with your kernel sources, you are toast
anyway. No need to doctor a Makefile for that at all.
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