On May 12, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm. I didn't know the ports system could do that.
>>
>> But, the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of any
>> makefile automaticallying su to root for me!
>
> OK. Care to explain why you feel that way? It's certainly no less
> safe
> than running buildworld and buildkernel as root (which is what the
> current setup encourages) and it's not like su doesn't still ask for
> the
> root password.
I don't see that it does that.. Actually its very rare that I run either
of these as root unless I'm doing regression testing on a test
machine.
I also don't like the idea. Its too unsafe to allow a Makefile to run
around changing this. In most cases su'ing to root in general can
be considered unsafe.
-DR