On Wed, 2 May 2012 13:13:15 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> wrote: > > Also, I think the instructions in the wiki could be improved. I was > > not able to su - buildbot after installing through package manager. I > > shall edit it once I have set it up and running. > > The page does say: """... create a new user "buildbot" if it doesn't > exist (your package manager might have done it for you)""", but it'd > be nice if it could clarify which are known to do it and which are > known not to, eg "(the Debian and Red Hat package managers will do > this for you)". Or is that too much of a moving target to be worth > trying to specify?
That page would probably like a good cleanup. I don't even think creating an user is required - it's just good practice, and you probably want that user to have as few privileges as possible. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
