On 8/16/07, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While updating the book to emacs 22.1 I've noticed that some files get > installed into /usr/share/emacs/22.1 owned by the user who built > emacs. Should I add instructions to change their ownership to root? > (I'd argue yes, because a user who owns some of those files could > trojan the system by altering them and waiting for root to run emacs, > so it's a security issue.)
Yeah, you should. Normally we try to handle these things in BLFS. I personally find it irritating when a package's build doesn't handle this situation properly. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
