Linux install question

[Robert Oschler]

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:slrnaqm18u.ml.gerhard.haering at lilith.my-fqdn.de...
> Robert Oschler wrote in comp.lang.python:
>
> I keep my sources in ~/src (i. e. a 'src' subdirectory of my home
> directory). I just unpack the tarball there, then change into:
>
> ~/src/Python-2.2.2
>
> and configure Python with the options I want, and most importantly, to
> be installed in a directory of itself. So what follows after unpacking
> is approx this:
>
> gerhard at lilith:~/src/Python2.2.2>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python2.2.2
> gerhard at lilith:~/src/Python2.2.2> make
> gerhard at lilith:~/src/Python2.2.2> su
> root at lilith:/home/gerhard/src/Python2.2.2> mkdir /usr/local/python2.2.2
> root at lilith:/home/gerhard/src/Python2.2.2> make install
> root at lilith:/home/gerhard/src/Python2.2.2> exit
> gerhard at lilith:~/src/Python2.2.2>
>
> I prefer to keep the Python installations in a directory of
> themselves, because then uninstalling works with a simple "rm -rf".
>


Gerhard,

Do you do anything special in regards to setting the User and Group
priveledges for executing Python, what settings do you use?  The main worry
of course is of someone hacking my linux box and perhaps running some
harmful python scripts.

thx