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Michael Weber wrote: |
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> I think running kernels from non-root checkouts is a pretty big |
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> security hole. |
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Suggest think again. |
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The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root. |
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This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream. |
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You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf / |
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which would be bad if you built as root. |
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The administrator usually has a normal user account somewhere. Use |
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that to build. |
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-sources ebuilds installing 755 root:root to /usr/src/linux is fine, |
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but best avoid building in-tree in that case. |
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//Peter |
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