[Linux-disciples] Preferred install location
Jamie Forrest
jamie at jamieforrest.com
Tue Jan 11 15:53:25 EST 2011
>
> Seems to me ~/bin and /usr/local/bin are both acceptable locations,
> especially if this is really just a desktop box. It is more secure to
> install it in /usr/local/bin as sudo, rather than in ~/bin as user, because
> the latter could be compromised by an errant process with user (but not su)
> rights.
>
> Yes I installed it to /usr/local/bin, but with owner jforrest and group
jforrest. Should I chown / chgrp these to root/root? Is there a way to
change both owner and group in one command?
Jamie
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