Unfortunately, many documents suggest doing this work as root. See
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2
Some re-education may be in order. :-(
-Peter
cc: Brian Ward, the Kernel-HOWTO maintainer
At 10:06pm Oct 25, 1999, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > There is a (mostly useful) feature in "tar" [...]
>
> > So you do this as root, needing write access to /usr/src.
>
> Sorry, it's a non-issue. Nobody sane should ever untar anything using
> root permissions. A tar file can include almost anything, including
> device nodes or an open /etc/passwd.
> In the specific Linux case, you don't need to extract sources in
> /usr/src (I have them all over the place, and they compile fine). Even
> if you want to do that in /usr/src, you'd better chown the directory
> to your personal account and avoid working as root.
