samba - Nov 2003 - Building as non-root user

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 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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