On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Reindl Harald: >> To your querstion about superuser: >> NERVER EVER build sources as superuser necause >> if there are bugs in the build-process you can >> damage you system which is impossible with >> restricted permissions. > > As per the Postfix INSTALL instructions, compile as unprivileged > (but trusted) user, then "make install" or "make upgrade" as root.
Sorry if my question may seem a stupid one but what do you mean by: unprivileged (but trusted) user? I created a user named "build" with home directory set to: /home/build and I compile the sources with this user inside it's home directory. Is this ok? Should I give more permissions to the "build" user? Should it be more trusted? Thank you, Buzai > To revert to the previous, "make" and "make upgrade" the earlier > version. > > Wietse >
