On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:03:29 +0300, Claudiu Rad wrote: > what is so wrong about building ffmpeg static binaries as root on a
The other way around: What's wrong with building as non-root? For one, as root, you risk ruining your system with one wrong command. (Ooops, forgot to specify an install prefix and overwrote the installation. Oops, I issued "rm -rf *" in the wrong directory.) And that's just the simple case. General security rule: Use only as much/many privileges as required at any point in time. Escalate only when necessary. (E.g. "sudo make install" if you happen to install into a location not writable by the regular user.) Moritz _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
