Subject: bug#74400: 31.0.50; tramp-loaddefs.elc suddenly owned by root

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 14:13:31 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:09:20 +0100
>>
>> My example doesn't claim to be the recipe which happened to Michael. But
>> it shows, that 'sudo make install' could create root-owned files in the
>> build dir, and that's what this bug report is about.
>>
>> I don't know whether it is important enough to change something. But we
>> should know (and document), that it could happen.
>
> If it's important enough, maybe.
>
> I think "make install" uses chmod to give everyone access to the file
> because some files could be owned by root.  If that works, why is the
> ownership important?

Does everyone get write rights, though?  If not, how can you run
commands like "git clean -fxd" as a regular root after "make install"?