On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Matthew Knepley wrote: > Installation is almost always done with root permission. If you > want to be pendatic, you can create other users for specific tasks, > like the webserver, but you STILL sudo to that user.
In most cases - the part thats done as 'root' is minimised [to just copying files in sudo 'make install']. The rest of the stuff - where more complicated things are execute - is done as regular user. Satish