Anaconda's default install is non-root. It's an entirely userspace thing by design.
On 2 August 2017 at 16:14, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-08-02 15:27, Scott Wales wrote: > > > As a side note I don't believe that PyPI does any vetting of what gets > uploaded, I'm not sure there's any real difference security wise between > downloading and running a python script with pip and downloading and > running a shell script. > > > > pip packages can be installed in a virtual-env as a non-root user. > > Can Anaconda be installed as non-root? Looking at the documentation > suggests that maybe this is possible. In which case the easiest solution > (if you don't want to use a chroot, virtual machine or some sort of > container) would be to just create a new user that you throw away after the > tutorial. > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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