Hello mark!

04 Aug 16 15:17, you wrote to me:

 AL>> Technically, you don't need to keep two copies.  The INSTALL
 AL>> instructions, AAMOF, suggest unpacking the tarball to /tmp as the
 AL>> root user, running the SETUP.sh script to create the MBSE users
 AL>> and home directories, and then logging in as the mbse user to
 AL>> unpack and build the software.

 ml> that sounds more like what i'd expect... i'll have to dig in a li'l
 ml> deeper as i'm pretty sure that the permissions and ownership likely
 ml> need to be adjusted so the mbse user can get to them...

That's the main reason for logging in as mbse before the final build of the 
software.  Unpacking the source archive (or cloning the code from a 
repository) as mbse sets the owner/group of all the source files to mbse:bbs.  
The initial build is also done as user mbse.  Then you run make install as 
root to install the files to the proper places and adjust 
ownership/permissions as needed.

Andrew

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