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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 12:24:15 -0400
From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:
> 
> > 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 :-).
> 

My exact problem.. I want to make it so I don't have to su.
Except maybe to make.

It would seem to be a natural thing to me to setup the src tree to
be writable from my normal account.

-Enjoy
Gary
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