Unfortunately, many documents suggest doing this work as root. See http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 Some re-education may be in order. :-( -Peter cc: Brian Ward, the Kernel-HOWTO maintainer At 10:06pm Oct 25, 1999, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > > There is a (mostly useful) feature in "tar" [...] > > > So you do this as root, needing write access to /usr/src. > > Sorry, it's a non-issue. Nobody sane should ever untar anything using > root permissions. A tar file can include almost anything, including > device nodes or an open /etc/passwd. > In the specific Linux case, you don't need to extract sources in > /usr/src (I have them all over the place, and they compile fine). Even > if you want to do that in /usr/src, you'd better chown the directory > to your personal account and avoid working as root.
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