From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2002-08-05 18:47:51
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Nathan Sharp wrote: > O.K. Pop quiz time. What does "su root -c make install" do? > (hint, it _doesn't_ install). Not the same as "su root -c 'make install'", then. Have you considered using sudo? It's very handy if you have a basically single-user box and you only really avoid using root because you want to avoid accidentally trashing it. You can even tell it to only permit certain commands to be run as root: at the moment I have cannam ALL=/usr/bin/make install,/usr/bin/make uninstall in my /etc/sudoers. Chris |