Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:20:44 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com> Cc: freebsd questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports via FTP Message-ID: <20000701212044.D1820@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <398DD560@operamail.com>; from bbarnes@operamail.com on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 09:29:07PM -0400 References: <398DD560@operamail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 09:29:07PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello list: > > I'm doing my first one of the above and it bothers me that I am online as > root. > There must be a way around this, but how can non-root write to /usr. I'm not sure what you are saying here, "online as root." Do you mean you are uneasy logging on to your PC as root while connected to a network? Do you mean you feel uneasy using anonymous ftp while root? If you really don't trust FreeBSD's fetch(1) and ftp(1), you can grab the source tarballs as a mortal user then as root move them to /usr/ports/distfiles. Either way, the ports system does do an md5(1) check on the downloaded tarballs before building and installing anything. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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