[Samba] Building as non-root user

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:39, Matt Seitz wrote:
> Are there any drawbacks to building SAMBA as a user other than root?  I would 
> like to build using a different account.  But USING SAMBA 2nd Edition says, 
> "Before running the configure script, it is important that you become the root 
> user on the system."  The "make" examples in both USING SAMBA and SAMBA HOWTO 
> also use the root user.

On a reasonably sensible linux system, the tests that require root can
be ignored safely.  Indeed, it's only the ./configure stage that needs
it at all.

(On other unix systems, these tests can be important however)

Andrew Bartlett

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