Any update on this?
Thank you,
Buzai
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Buzai Andras buzai.and...@gmail.com wrote:
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
* Buzai Andras buzai.and...@gmail.com:
Sorry if my question may seem a stupid one but what do you mean by:
unprivileged (but trusted) user?
A user without root-privileges
I created a user named build with home directory set to: /home/build
and I compile the sources with this user inside
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
Hi,
I want to install Postfix 2.7.2 by compiling it from sources.
In the INSTALL file I saw the following statement:
In the instructions below, a command written as #
command should be executed as the superuser.
A command written as % command should be executed as an
On 01/10/2011 11:06 AM, Buzai Andras wrote:
Hi,
Hi
I want to install Postfix 2.7.2 by compiling it from sources.
In the INSTALL file I saw the following statement:
In the instructions below, a command written as #
command should be executed as the superuser.
A
Hi,
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
always learn something new.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, John Adams mailingli...@belfin.ch wrote:
Am 10.01.2011 10:06,
Is there any security risk if I configure/compile all the sources
as the superuser? (I am referring only to the build/installation
process)
Unlikely but possible.
Could you please elaborate this a little? Maybe with an example?
Thank you,
Buzai
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM,
Am 10.01.2011 11:33, schrieb Buzai Andras:
Hi,
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
always learn something new.
nobody said anything against
software packaging
Am 10.01.2011 13:37, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 10.01.2011 11:33, schrieb Buzai Andras:
Hi,
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
always learn something new.
nobody
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)
Am 10.01.2011 14:11, schrieb John Adams:
As it may take some time to build up software packaging facility
where is the problem to take the source-package and
try to replace the programsource for a rebuild?
On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm, install it as builduser, put
the newer tarball under
Am 10.01.2011 14:23, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 10.01.2011 14:11, schrieb John Adams:
As it may take some time to build up software packaging facility
where is the problem to take the source-package and
try to replace the programsource for a rebuild?
On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm,
Am 10.01.2011 14:43, schrieb John Adams:
On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm, install it as builduser, put
the newer tarball under SOURCES, edit the SPECFILE and do
a rpmbuild -bb postfix.spec, i do this since a long time
necause i rebuild all our core-services with optimized
gcc-flags
I use
I use Slackware.
And he is using Ubuntu
the basics still apply.
with other words: a system from the 1990's
... which is very up-to-date with it's software, much more than centos
or debian. And because I like KISS :)
you are not packaging because you do not want, you can not :-)
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Buzai Andras wrote:
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Ubuntu 10.04 contains 2.7.0[1], Ubuntu 10.10 contains 2.7.1[2]. You n
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
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