[Linux-disciples] Preferred install location

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On 1/11/2011 3:53 PM, Jamie Forrest wrote:
>
>>     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?
Yes, I would have everything in /usr/local/bin root:root. Just chown 
root:root /usr/local/bin/filename.
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