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Subject: Re: Mj2: Re: installing Mj2 without the root password
From: SRE <eckert @ climber . org>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:40:12 -0700
To: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM, mj2-dev @ csf . colorado . edu
In-reply-to: <E13YbDJ-0000JY-00@moscow.com>
References: <Message from SRE <eckert@climber.org><4.3.1.0.20000911113843.00bb5c20@pop.climber.org>

At 02:34 PM 9/11/00, Michael Yount wrote:
>It depends upon the features being used.  For example, the majordomo user
>may not have write access to the cgi-bin directory, so it
>may be impossible to install the CGI wrappers except as root.  

I'll add that.

>Perhaps "potentially fewer security concerns" is more accurate.

Much better... I meant to say "no ADDITIONAL" concerns, not 
"no concerns". Oops.

So where should this go? Into Makefile.PL where it tells you to
run "make install" as root?




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