Am 30.09.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Claudiu Rad: > On 9/30/2014 12:09 PM, Moritz Barsnick wrote: >> 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.) > > Totally agree with you, don't get me wrong. > But there are cases where it just doesn't matter
that is a bad attitude in general everytime i hear people argue that way sooner or later i hear "shit it did matter and i realized too late" > I have a ffmpeg-build dedicated VM, quickly setup from scratch, > maybe a snapshot with all in place in case I break something you may notice it too late > it's just about the comfort of not bothering to create new > users, not sudo-ing when you need something why do you not have a normal user on that VM at all including the "golden-master" VM from which you can clone others - sorry but for type ./configure as root exists no excuse frankly if you have a proper rpm spec you don't need to care about anything but drop the new tarball in the SOURCES folder, edit the version number in the SPEC and you are done
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