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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Kresimir Kumericki kkumer@phy.hr http://www.phy.hr/~kkumer/ Theoretical Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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