From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 01:44:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 3234B16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:44:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: from admin.i13i.com (admin.i13i.com [208.98.1.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C074D43D5E for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: (qmail 73298 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2006 01:53:28 -0000 Received: from mail.i13i.com (HELO webmail.i13i.com) (208.98.15.133) by admin.i13i.com with SMTP; 14 Feb 2006 01:53:28 -0000 Received: from 201.155.124.120 (SquirrelMail authenticated user chris@i13i.com) by webmail.i13i.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:53:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1386.201.155.124.120.1139882008.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com> In-Reply-To: <43F103B4.6080601@vonostingroup.com> References: <43F103B4.6080601@vonostingroup.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:53:28 -0600 (CST) From: chris@i13i.com To: "Frank J. Laszlo" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port installation without root access X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:44:03 -0000 > This has been on my TODO list for quite some time now, and I havent > really gotten around to actually implementing it. As it stands right > now, I have a script that allows normal users to build/install ports > with some environment trickery and a few hacks. I'd like to integrate > this into the ports system. so it would be as simple as a user > specifying a particular variable in their environment, NOROOT_BUILD, or > something along those lines, as well as other user specified variables > to allow full installation without root access. > Normal users would be able to maintain their own package database, > and their own upgrades locally. Obviously we do not want to give normal > users access to ALL the ports, so i propose adding functionality to > allow the system admin to customize what the normal users have access > to. Such as a config file that says which ports they can and cannot > install, or whether to allow normal user installations at all. > At this point im just probing for interest, and hoping to recruit a > couple port guru's to give me a hand with some of the details. :) > > Regards, > Frank > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hello, If you are going to allow users to install packages you mind as well give them root or admin privileges i dont see the point in letting users able to install [ackages on a machine which has more then one user on it but i am just commenting as most users normally need to install a couple things mostly irc crap like eggdrops or bnc's i have never had a email from a customer saying please install KDE for me