Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:37:32 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca, zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extracted files' permissions Message-ID: <37A0E5BC.CBA2B135@gorean.org> References: <19990729161457.A727@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl> <199907292158.OAA50528@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990729185227.A25334@mad> <199907292257.PAA21531@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > * From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> > > * 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
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