From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 28 20:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15483 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org (dialup14.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15473 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA14979; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 04:48:56 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19981228224856.A14175@znh.org> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:48:56 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Matthew Hunt , Paul Traina , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld as someone other than root? References: <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net> <19981228145942.A29832@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981228145942.A29832@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:59:42PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:59:42PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Paul Traina wrote: > > 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? > I routinely do "make buildworld" as a normal user. I first source > the following: > ... Last time I tried, there was at least one instance of a makefile explicitly setting BINGRP (/usr/src/games/dm/Makefile), which broke non-root 'make buildworld' for me. I suppose adding yourself to the 'games' group isn't a very big risk. [this also isn't very hard to "fix", but the obvious fix breaks the reason it's there in the first place]. -- Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message