From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 29 16:38:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CA11568C; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26345; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37A0E5BC.CBA2B135@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:37:32 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca, zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extracted files' permissions References: <19990729161457.A727@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl> <199907292158.OAA50528@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990729185227.A25334@mad> <199907292257.PAA21531@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > * From: Tim Vanderhoek > > * If this really must go in then it also needs to allow for non-priv > * user port builds. > > What do you mean? My patch tests for `id -u` = 0 so it won't do > anything if the builder is not root (and if you're not root, all files > are owned by you anyway). Do we really want to force users to be root to install ports/packages? I can think of lots of ways that this would be bad, since it dramatically limits flexibility. I personally have a lot of things that are writable by group wheel so that I can do some things (like download and extract stuff I just want to look at) as a regular user. I might be misunderstanding something here though... Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message