Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hello Nico, On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:01 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
There are easily half a dozen reasons. The first one is that this is where root runs their builds: if you leave it with write permission for other users,
Second, if you open the permissions there, multiple users can step on each other building similar packages at the same time,
I only suggested chowning to a single trusted user, not opening that directory to all users.
<snip> Yes, but.... I don't know if you're doing this at work, or home. If the former, what happens when someone else uses that to build, either a co-worker, or you move on to a better job (or get hit by a car), who doesn't know what's going on. It's better to leave the system in the way it was intended, in terms of ownership and permissions, and so it's in a known state.
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