Most build systems these days recommend building entirely as a normal
user (even Debian?) and the chown-and-other-ops are done with careful
setuid privileges given to the build system.

RPM and rpmbuild have been doing it that way for years.

On 5/8/19 11:37 AM, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
>
>> On May 7, 2019, at 9:38 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>      echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>>      echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the"
>>      echo "user amanda, but must be installed by user root."
>
> Is this actually still true?   I always configure and build and install as 
> root.
> My backup account is OPERATOR though, so that could be why I’ve had no 
> trouble?
>
> Deb Baddorf
>

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