On June 10, 2014 6:24:17 AM CEST, Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: >> http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html shows the 'cvs update' command >being >> run by root ("#" shell prompt), and I wouldn't expect any non-root >user >> to have write permission to /usr/src anyway. So... why is doing the >> cvs-update as root a bad idea? > >Is this a kind of bad joke? Running anything as root unless it >absolutely requires root privileges is a bad idea. Put yourself in the >wsrc group, and you'll be able to write into /usr/src. > >Miod
Indeed, however I agree that '#' suggests that the command is to be run as root, and could be confusing. /Alexander
