On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:39, Matt Seitz wrote:> Are there any drawbacks to building SAMBA as a user other than root? I
would
> like to build using a different account. But USING SAMBA 2nd Edition says,
> "Before running the configure script, it is important that you become
the root
> user on the system." The "make" examples in both USING
SAMBA and SAMBA HOWTO
> also use the root user.
On a reasonably sensible linux system, the tests that require root can
be ignored safely. Indeed, it's only the ./configure stage that needs
it at all.
(On other unix systems, these tests can be important however)
Andrew Bartlett
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
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