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 >
