Martijn van Beurden:
> > Some people build software and run the regression tests as root.
> > (Possibly in some restricted environment.)
> >
> > I've been asked to make sure this works.
>
> Please provide a rationale. As Brian points out, this is generally frowned
> upon.
It's for FreeBSD's
Op di 27 sep. 2022 om 23:27 schreef Christian Weisgerber :
> Some people build software and run the regression tests as root.
> (Possibly in some restricted environment.)
>
> I've been asked to make sure this works.
>
Please provide a rationale. As Brian points out, this is generally frowned
I think it's a really bad idea to run anything as root, unless absolutely
necessary. Isn't this why sudo has become standard? It seems that modern
systems do not even have a root account, and expect users to execute most
commands with reduced privileges.
Skipping a valid test because someone
