Re: Linux ease of use

Thus quoth John Andersen on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:51:23PM -0800:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 02:21, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> > The good news is of course, that you need to be root to install software,
> > and hopefully root will think for half a second before installing the
> > latest trojan.
> 
> A popular misconception.
> You can install software as a user into your own user space
> ~/bin.  And thats probably where most of the click-install

make install --prefix=~/bin (as if we didn't know that)

> software should go.  At least it can't do harm to anyone
> except that particular user.

So I locked down the /home FS to prevent end-users from harming themselves.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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	If Gates had meant us to use Windows,
	He would have given us three hands.