Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:44:43 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: tcg@ime.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src tree owners Message-ID: <199607021144.LAA01066@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960701212923.228Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> (message from Doug White on Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:31:17 -0700 (PDT))
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> > Is it safe to chown the src tree so one can use it without > > having to be su. > > > > Is there a `proper` way for this? > > Why? You have to be su to write to anything in there by default (and I > know this from many personal experieneces forgetting to su to root before > editing my kernel config :-). Erm, perhaps that was why he was asking? :-) In any event, you have to be root to be able to *install* anything you've built from the source tree, so there doesn't seem to be a great deal of point in changing it. On Unix, the `proper` way is for configuration files to be owned by root - it's not a good idea to allow just anybody to change them! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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