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From: | enclair |
Subject: | Re: [Help-stow] Installing without root privileges in /usr/local |
Date: | Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:01:21 +0100 |
That should work fine, as per
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime
although you should be aware that this potentially reduces the
security of the whole system to that of the user with access to
/usr/local/stow. If that user's account was compromised, and there
was an existing symlink from /usr/local/bin/foo to
/usr/local/stow/package/bin/foo, then the intruder would only need to
replace the latter with a trojaned version and wait for it to be run
in order to gain root access.
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