On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:58:04 -0800 Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, I must've missed that one too. I guess I will be unprivileged > as much as I can from now on. I never read the BLFS book straight > through like I did with LFS. Does this have to do with security or > does it actually change the functionality? > > Epitome > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On 12/21/05, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:16:34PM -0800, Amu wrote: > > > iam using user=root for building whole blfs.... > > > can i use root? > > > > What does the book say? It affects security, but not functionality if you get you permissions right - which is worth getting right from the beginning. But, Safety mainly - it's too easy to screw up your precious new LFS system if you run as root. Look at the difference between 'rm -rf ~*' and 'rm -rf *' - not a mistake to make when PWD=/ - others are more subtle. I don't think there are any instructions in BLFS that would cause problems run as root, but then they have not been checked for that ;-) Finally Craig, Please read the netiquet section of the LFS FAQ. You are a dirty top-poster and a damned HTML mailer. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
