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Date:      Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:48:41 +0100
From:      Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr>
To:        James Gill <gill@topsecret.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ?
Message-ID:  <19991125174840.A19930@phy.hr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911231020040.5172-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net>
References:  <19991123161210.C13915@phy.hr> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911231020040.5172-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net>

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On (23 Nov 10:29), James Gill wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Kresimir Kumericki wrote:
[about why play with ports as unprivileged user]
> 
> That makes perfect sense to me, but i've never had any success tinkering
> about in the ports tree as a normal luser.  If i've got a port installed
> running make just gives me a series of "attempting to fetch.. ..permission
> denined" error messages.
> 
> What do you suggest I do, chmod the /usr/ports to g+w and tinker as a user
> and install as a root?  

  I think it's better to do as the other guy suggested: 
# chown -R luser /usr/ports
 
chmod -R  g+w /usr/ports would probably do as well if luser
is member of the wheel group but the above approach looks
cleaner to me.

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Kresimir Kumericki  kkumer@phy.hr  http://www.phy.hr/~kkumer/
Theoretical Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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