Eric Lavarde wrote: > ted morris wrote: > > > >Hi Gunnar, > > > >you build things as *root user under Linux, using a terminal shell* -- > You surely do *NOT* build things as _root_! You build things as normal > user, and install them as root (i.e. only the make install step).
... Because it is trivially easy to hide a trojan in a configure script. In fact, the only trojans for Linux that I have seen in the wild were in configure scripts. There could just as easily be a mistake coded into a configure script that rm's your filesystem, but I have never seen such a mistake - probably because the person who made the mistake rm'ed their filesystem just a moment after making the mistake ;^)
