On 10/19/2013 10:09 AM, Dennis New wrote: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:52:01 -0400, Steve Dougherty wrote: >> On 10/18/2013 11:27 AM, Jason McPeak wrote: >>> When I try to install it in LINUX, wants to be installed not as >>> root. when I try to install from a non root shell, it can't access >>> or find the files to install. >> >> Odd. Where are you trying to install it to? What errors do you get, >> specifically? >> >> It's correct that the official distribution of Freenet should not be >> installed or run by root. There's an experimental Debian package that >> installs it system-wide, and I think the (unofficial?) Gentoo package >> is system-wide as well. > > What's wrong with "system-wide" installation -- as long as it's run as > a restricted non-root user?
Nothing comes to mind, other than that something system-wide requires root access to install. The question then becomes why one would trust one's security to a machine one does not have root access to. I'm not sure what the plan is there, if there is one.
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