Re: small enhancement idea for 'make installworld' et al.

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 12, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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