Answers below; Kyrath. (AKA Rob) said the following on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:24:00AM -0400: > I recently ran into a problem caused by my bad habit of doing most things as root. When I tried to run a program that was unpacked, configured, compiled, and installed as root, but then tried to execute it as a regular user, I discovered some permissions & ownership restrictions. > We all learn *smile*. > 1. where should I be unpacking tarballs? I have been doing it in > /usr/local/src, but I'm unable to do so as a regular user. What I just do is have under my own home dir a directory called src and unpack there as my normal user. IE: /home/raul/src. You could also just go into /tmp and mkdir src and unpack there. I do this because I'm the only user on the box. Tipicaly you would as a normal user do: tar xzvf name-of-.tar.gz cd dir-tar-created ./configure make Once you are ready to actually install then su - to root note the dash in there and do make install from that dir. > 2. My regular account has me as belonging to the users group. Should > this regular account belong to any other groups, perhaps reducing my > need to use the root account as often? You should be fine in most cases just belonging to users group. In fact I belong to the raul group of which I'm the only one in it. -- -- Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net -- Public GPG Key - http://asmodean.net/raul-pgp.asc
