* Buzai Andras :
> > Sorry if my question may seem a stupid one but what do you mean by:
> > unprivileged (but trusted) user?
A user without root-privileges
> > I created a user named "build" with home directory set to: /home/build
> > and I compile the sources with this user inside it's home di
Any update on this?
Thank you,
Buzai
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Buzai Andras wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
>> Reindl Harald:
>>> To your querstion about superuser:
>>> NERVER EVER build sources as superuser necause
>>> if there are bugs in the build-proce
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Reindl Harald:
>> To your querstion about superuser:
>> NERVER EVER build sources as superuser necause
>> if there are bugs in the build-process you can
>> damage you system which is impossible with
>> restricted permissions.
>
> As per the P
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Buzai Andras wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
> latest Postfix release.
Ubuntu 10.04 contains 2.7.0[1], Ubuntu 10.10 contains 2.7.1[2]. You n
> Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I ca
I use Slackware.
And he is using Ubuntu
the basics still apply.
with other words: a system from the 1990's
... which is very up-to-date with it's software, much more than centos
or debian. And because I like KISS :)
you are not packaging because you do not want, you can not :-)
Non
Am 10.01.2011 14:43, schrieb John Adams:
>> On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm, install it as builduser, put
>> the newer tarball under SOURCES, edit the SPECFILE and do
>> a "rpmbuild -bb postfix.spec", i do this since a long time
>> necause i rebuild all our core-services with optimized
>> gcc-fla
Am 10.01.2011 14:23, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 10.01.2011 14:11, schrieb John Adams:
As it may take some time to build up software packaging facility
where is the problem to take the source-package and
try to replace the programsource for a rebuild?
On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm, instal
Am 10.01.2011 14:11, schrieb John Adams:
> As it may take some time to build up software packaging facility
where is the problem to take the source-package and
try to replace the programsource for a rebuild?
On RHEL/Fedora you take the srpm, install it as builduser, put
the newer tarball under
Reindl Harald:
> To your querstion about superuser:
> NERVER EVER build sources as superuser necause
> if there are bugs in the build-process you can
> damage you system which is impossible with
> restricted permissions.
As per the Postfix INSTALL instructions, compile as unprivileged
(but trusted
Am 10.01.2011 13:37, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 10.01.2011 11:33, schrieb Buzai Andras:
Hi,
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
always learn something new.
nobody said
Am 10.01.2011 11:33, schrieb Buzai Andras:
> Hi,
>
> I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
> latest Postfix release.
> Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
> always learn something new.
nobody said anything against
"software packagi
>>Is there any security risk if I configure/compile all the sources
>> as the superuser? (I am referring only to the build/installation
>> process)
> Unlikely but possible.
Could you please elaborate this a little? Maybe with an example?
Thank you,
Buzai
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:38 A
Hi,
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and the package repository does not contain the
latest Postfix release.
Also I prefer installing packages from source. This way I think I can
always learn something new.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, John Adams wrote:
> Am 10.01.2011 10:06, schrieb Buzai Andras:
>>
>>
Am 10.01.2011 10:06, schrieb Buzai Andras:
Hi,
I want to install Postfix 2.7.2 by compiling it from sources.
In the INSTALL file I saw the following statement:
"In the instructions below, a command written as "#
command" should be executed as the superuser.
A command
On 01/10/2011 11:06 AM, Buzai Andras wrote:
> Hi,
Hi
> I want to install Postfix 2.7.2 by compiling it from sources.
> In the INSTALL file I saw the following statement:
>
> "In the instructions below, a command written as "#
> command" should be executed as the superuser.
>
Hi,
I want to install Postfix 2.7.2 by compiling it from sources.
In the INSTALL file I saw the following statement:
"In the instructions below, a command written as "#
command" should be executed as the superuser.
A command written as "% command" should be executed as an
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