From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 27 19:46: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069D437B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C3F43E75 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FC5266B41; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:46:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports as non-root user. Message-ID: <20020928024604.GD66227@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="P+33d92oIH25kiaB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:41:46AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Main Question: Is the ports system designed to make it possible to install > (all?) ports without being "root"? Now, obviously, there are ports > which one will eventually WANT to run as root or even install as root, > but should I be ABLE to do it as non-root? It hasn't been a design goal in the past. It would probably be nice to support it, but it's a lot of work. You can _build_ many ports as non-root, but installing tends to hard-wire arguments to install(1) that are root-only. Kris --P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lRfsWry0BWjoQKURAtLbAJ4wzXCT5gevq8UcjCbHiUarDni8DgCg5m3s Bd/eHY9r4yn37jHaytmjkcQ= =id32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --P+33d92oIH25kiaB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message