From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 8:49:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from macbeth.phy.hr (macbeth.phy.hr [161.53.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0649C14A23 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 08:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkumer@macbeth.phy.hr) Received: (from kkumer@localhost) by macbeth.phy.hr (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19942; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:48:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:48:41 +0100 From: Kresimir Kumericki To: James Gill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ? Message-ID: <19991125174840.A19930@phy.hr> Reply-To: kkumer@phy.hr References: <19991123161210.C13915@phy.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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