Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:30:02 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: buildworld as someone other than root? Message-ID: <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net>
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Before I go beating my brains around an impossibility, has anyone ever played with making at least the initial part of 'buildworld' buildable as someone other than root? Why do I ask? Well, we're playing around with multiple trees for projects, and need a "self-contained" mini freebsd environment. This usually means a directory structure populated with a reasonable subset of .h files and libraries. Currently, we build just such a thing, but we've got to do it as root because install and mtree want to change ownerships. I was randomly thinking of adding code to install and mtree to allow them to quietly ignore failures for chown/chgrp's... but this is rather evil. Does anyone have better ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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