Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:27:38 -0800 | From | Nish Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions |
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On 11/26/05, David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Nish, this is obviously the difference. I never compile anything as > > root (pesky Makefiles rm -rf'ing things!). > > Yeah, but you still need to install stuff as root... unless you do > weird stuff like installwatch or something.
Uh, untarring is the operation that needs to be non-root. So just have a build user or some other non-root user do the untarring and building (which is recommended by most anyways, IIRC). Then, as root (or via sudo) make modules_install install.
On 11/26/05, David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah you can't very well compile and install a kernel without > permissions to /boot ;)
Again, you pretty clearly can *compile* a kernel as boot. root is only needed for install (and this is the division of tasks that I use and recommend to others).
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