Plain paranoia I expect. Kernel compiles can take a long time, if you walk away from the console, a simple Ctl-C & you've just given root access to anyone.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: C Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:30 p.m. > To: Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: Shell Scripting, and Kernel Compiling Lessons at OSTC. > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 12:00, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > 3. The above line assumes the kernel and modules are built as root. > > This is needless. You should build the kernel and > modules under a > > non-privileged user and use root _only_ to install the > kernel and > > modules. > > Whats wrong with that? > > >
