Re: Re: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:37:31 +0200, Hadmut Danisch said:
> Again: There is no such advice. The README just says
>
>    "To do the actual install you have to be root, but none of the normal
>    build should require that. "
>
> So you don't need to be root in order to compile. But this is not an
> advice to not be root.

If you can't put together "none of the normal build should require it" and
the standard advice of "don't run anything as root unless it requires it"
(you *are* aware that's standard advice, right?) to get "therefor, don't
build it as root, since root isn't required", you probably shouldn't be
doing *anything* as root.

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