On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:37:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] > Making you be root to download stuff off the internet never seemed > like a good idea. And letting "you" (not root) install things in system directories (/usr/bin et al) seems to be as bad an idea. Remember that little javascript in your browser made by "Fakebook"? It's running as you. Do you want it to put its grubby fingers all over your system dirs? No, the installer doesn't want root to "download stuff". It wants root to put things on /usr/bin, /etc and similar places. Actually it /needs/ root for that, and this seems to be a Good Thing. If you want to try out alternatives, you could do (kids: don't try this at home!): I repeat: **DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!** sudo chmod -R ugo+rwX / DON'T DO THIS! Enjoy your alternative Unix. Cheers -- t
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