Re: Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

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Hi,

> A good idea is to automatically change to a much more restricted user, used
> just for building (no shells, logins, etc.). 

What do you think about patching yaourt to that it, if executed as root, runs 
makepkg as a special user? Or changing makepkg to drop it's own privileges if 
executed as root?

Regards,

Roland

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