On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 06:15:22 +0200, Marek Pawinski <pawinski.marek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From what i understand you are telling the user to execute > "./configure" and "make" as root which to me is a security risk, i > would rather do it as user and "make install" as root. > > I agree. But ..... It is honestly more of a fat finger risk. Don't spend lots of time logged in as root doing things. Just an invitation one way or another to disaster. Anyone for example can forget a dash or something like the example below: (Never do this as root) find / name core -exec rm {} \; The guy who did this forgot the dash and deleted everything from / down.