Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Mikkel: > Thanks for the reply. It was a bit of a shock to be able to install a program > on a Linux system without having root privilege. I'll recover. > You can install programs in your home directory. If you create a bin directory in your home directory, the executables you put there will be on your path. I have a bunch of personal scripts there on my system. I also have a couple of binaries in there as well. I also build, and test programs as a normal user. The source tree in in a directory off my home directory. I can test the completed binary by giving the path to it. (./<program> <options>) Now, if /home is a separate partition, you can turn on executable permission for the user's home directory in the mount options. But this is not done by default. What you can not do as a normal user is install into the normal system tree. (You need to use su, or sudo.) You are allowed to shoot yourself in the foot, but you have a hard time causing problems for other users. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
