Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Albert
Hopkins did opine thusly:
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author
wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root.
I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the
most part have done it as root without any problems.
Same here.
The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-*
Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those
sources?
If they are accessible by a user, couldn't a user then edit or add
something that would then cause a security problem? If they can edit
them and no one know it, then root comes along and builds a shiney new
kernel with a really nice security hole.
Glad only root can get to the sources. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
