Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 3/1/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an >> unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere <snip> > You pretty much hit the nail on the head. In LFS, we don't have an > unprivileged user in the chroot, so we do everything as root. In BLFS, > though, the main idea is that you don't want to be root unless you > absolutely have to be.
A chroot root user is almost null-privileged WRT the host system, that's why so many daemons are run in a chroot jail! > BLFS is also written with the intention that you're reading the page > entering the commands in a shell. That gets really old after a couple > days, though :) > > -- > Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
