Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:09:23 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of portmaster Message-ID: <572827e3-fbfe-8aad-5fbf-f6aebf061f59@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20170217092516.2b4ba57d@freedom.alkumuna.eu> References: <CAB88xy_RU5TTE=pcsjCWsxWyU-jP91qzD9S-R1v6GKGHJg2=nQ@mail.gmail.com> <945f6d92-6834-7e2c-18c4-0a17e2c04122@columbus.rr.com> <44shneot7h.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <079d97d0-8dc7-8dcd-460e-86644f12b900@columbus.rr.com> <1244d826-e4ae-97a9-6033-8a1c79c2da9e@m5p.com> <7d0525ee-980e-a63a-f90f-974a7e1022cf@columbus.rr.com> <9ffa861978cdb1a06a69d7b9af525ad5@ultimatedns.net> <8cdf045f-a333-0fcf-c1ab-2fea2114e384@abinet.ru> <20170217092516.2b4ba57d@freedom.alkumuna.eu>
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Am 17.02.2017 um 09:25 schrieb Matthieu Volat: > Just dropping privileges to a dedicated user for building would be a > big step, but that's more a port feature (openbsd's ports do that, if > I'm not wrong). With a distfiles directory writable to the unprivileged user doing the build, and sudo as a privilege escalation tool for the same user, you can do major parts of the build as unprivileged user with existing versions already. No need to run portmaster as root.
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