On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 09:25, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:28, Colin Charles wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:12, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > > I hope Fedora News stops instructing newbies to use root for anything > > Erm, I don't think thats what I did. > > I don't know who actually wrote the article, but the article clearly > says: > > su - > cvs -d... > tar ... > rpmbuild ... > rpm ... I don't know about that specific article, but the one on creating an RPM of Acrobat used root for everything as well. Unfortunately, the only way around using root for "rpmbuild", as far as I can tell, is to do "chmod -R user:user /usr/src". Which I do myself, actually, but I am not sure of all the implications. True story: an early version of the HP C compiler on HP-UX tried to "rm /dev/null" which, of course, succeeded if you ran cc as root and the system then crashed. So I fully agree with the central idea of not using root unless you must. I think the real question is, how best to not require root for things like rpmrebuild? -- Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
