From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 7:56:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065C14037 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 07:56:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12GOcW-0002UO-00; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:56:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA14159 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:56:32 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:56:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: security for non-root sysadmins Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, one thing i have learned here is to use a user account for as much admin as possible. I use su to do the rest. I also read somewhere that if i change the permissions on /usr/ports/distfiles and one other directory (work?) i can make ports without being root. What directory is that? Are there any other changes like these i can make that will mean spending less time as root for admin tasks, like building work or kernel? Is there a security risk in changing these directory permissions to less strict settings? -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message