Re: Improved security for https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-make.html - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Improved security for https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-make.html
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Msg-id f20bbf3e-f883-4e5b-90b5-79af66f5e788@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: Improved security for https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-make.html  (Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com>)
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On 12.11.24 22:50, Bear Giles wrote:
> My point was mostly that I did a fresh 'git clone', followed the 
> instructions, and was immediately hit by a "permission denied" error 
> because the make script tried to create a directory under /usr/local. It 
> wasn't clear whether that was the only thing that required root access. 

Please provide a precise description of what steps you did and what the 
result or output from each was.  This report is not clear enough to be 
actionable.  As far as I can tell, the existing instructions are sound 
for a typical use, so it's not clear where your situation diverged.




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