On Wednesday 19 May 2004 19:45, Nick Rout wrote: > > True, but emerge is still going to compile the gentoo updates as root. > > untrue > > AFAIK it drops root privileges while compiling I'm not sure about that. What does line from ps mean?
root 1288 0.0 4.8 22044 18864 tty1 RN+ 20:00 0:02 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/cc1plus -fpreprocessed /var/tmp/portage/kdegames-3.2.2/temp/fakehome/.ccache/tmp.stdout.liberty.1282.ii -quiet -dumpbase tmp.stdout.liberty.1282.ii -march=pentium2 -ansi -auxbase-strip /var/tmp/portage/kdegames-3.2.2/temp/fakehome/.ccache/tmp.hash.liberty.1282 o -O2 -O2 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -ansi -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -o - It seems to be running as root doesn't it? I agree it should be running as the portage user, but I don't think it is. Yes, it's one of the few Gentoo failings about which I'm actually concerned. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
