From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two suggestions (loop and owner's of linux tree)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:48:51 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9r6kcj$trt$3@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1003933278.1496.6.camel@LNX.iNES.RO> <20011024143850.EAC2598410@oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl>
In article <20011024143850.EAC2598410@oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl>,
Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl> wrote:
>In article <1003933278.1496.6.camel@LNX.iNES.RO> you wrote:
>> chmod -R root.root linux/
>> after you have unpacked the tarball.
>
>Unnecessarily extra command :) Sometimes I can forget about this and then
>user with uid 1046 can modify my kernel source.
Simply unpack and compile the kernel as a normal user, not as root.
Only install the new kernel as root. Get into the habit of logging
in as a normal user and doing root stuff with 'su' or 'sudo'
Mike.
--
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-24 14:13 Two suggestions (loop and owner's of linux tree) Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 14:21 ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2001-10-24 14:38 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 14:48 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2001-10-24 14:57 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-24 15:04 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-25 9:27 ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-25 9:52 ` Asus CUV-266-D vs Intel NIC Dead2
2001-10-25 10:18 ` Asus CUV-266-D vs Intel NIC (also MSI-6321) Dead2
2001-10-25 10:39 ` Dead2
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