On Thursday 02 April 2009 19:22:27 Simone Piccardi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:42:23PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Good idea. Seeing as your source tree can be anywhere you feel like > > putting it. Kernel documentation last time I looked explicitly recommends > > you put it in your home directory. > > > > /usr/src is more a matter of convention than anything else > > ItÃ' also matter of security avoiding the use of root account when > possible. > > Compiling things by root in my opinion is not so security wise, and to > compile things in /usr/src you must be root.
That is incorrect. There's nothing to stop you creating /usr/src/something where "something" is owned by an unprivileged user and compiling there. It's the install phase that is usually root only as invariably only root has write permissions to /lib/modules. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
