On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: > > If it is your own machine then you should certainly be in the 'src' > group and then you would have access to /usr/src as your own normal > user self. And if you don't know about src then you probably don't > know about 'staff' and 'adm' either. The staff group gets you access > to /usr/local and adm gets you read-only browsing capability to > /var/log/*. You probably want all three. > > $ sudo adduser zlinuxman adm > $ sudo adduser zlinuxman src > $ sudo adduser zlinuxman staff > > Then log out. At login you will be set to those additional groups. > With those in place you can work as yourself in those areas. Safer > than using root since as yourself you can't smash anything in the > system directories /etc or /bin or /var or other system locations. > This makes installing local software through 'make install' much safer > and more contained when not done as root. If one were to crawl out of > /usr/local for example you would see the failure. If you were running > as root then you would not.
I do know about groups, but I don't necessarily know the intended purpose of all of the pre-defined groups in a Linux system. Where can I find documentation for that? Still, I should have noticed that the /usr/src directory was owned by user root and by group src. For some reason, I never made that connection. That's a great tip, thanks. I will have to play around with this. If I can get everything to work, then the next revision of my kernel building web page will be revised accordingly. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/399638650.38733.1281620510281.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
