2007/5/8, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>:
On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:12:22 +0200
"Raffaele Morelli" <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Me too compile kernels as root and really would like to know why it is
> considered such a bad habit.
It's generally considered a bad idea to do anything as root unless it's
absolutely necessary. I suppose it's one of those rules that's meant to
be broken if you know what you're doing, but it's kind of a slippery
slope; it's likely that sooner or later you'll do something that you'd
regret less if you hadn't done it as root :).
That's ok, I follow the general (healthy) rule and do not log as root if unnecessary, but for kernel (and program) compile I can not picture 'make-kpkg' or 'configure && make' doing something regrettable.
Anyway I hope not to fall in the slippery slope. :-)
As someone said:
"to err is human, but for a real disgrace you need the root password"
> cheers
> raffaele
Celejar