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On 09/11/2010 11:24 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
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> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell, and the author wrote we |
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> shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. |
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> Is sudo (or kdesudo ?) a good replacement to that ? |
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> Kdesudo works good to have xconfig, which is more comfortable that menuconfig. |
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> But is it a good manner of making things ? |
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Why sudo? Simply chown -R the whole kernel tree. Only the |
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modules_install and install targets will need root. |
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I've done it like this for as long as I can remember. |
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