Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:07:31 +0300 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: "Julian C. Dunn" <lists@aquezada.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with portupgrade under non-root user Message-ID: <45E34C13.6040108@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070226111603.P87234@aphrodite.acf.aquezada.com> References: <20070226111603.P87234@aphrodite.acf.aquezada.com>
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Julian C. Dunn wrote: > I want to set up a FreeBSD system so that all portupgrades are done by a > "portbld" user, which has restricted 'sudo' rights to execute only > portupgrade-related commands. To that end, I did the following: > > $ sudo chown -R portbld:portbld /usr/ports > $ sudo chown -R portbld:portbld /var/db/sup/ports-all > $ cd /usr/ports && sudo -u portbld make update > (cvsup runs) > (add 'portbld' to sudoers with NOPASSWD: ALL for now) > $ sudo -u portbld portupgrade -s dovecot You need root at least for port install. > > Unfortunately this last step doesn't work: ruby dumps core: > > Making all in doc > cat dovecot-config.in|sed "s|moduledir=|moduledir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot|" >> dovecot-config > ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) > ! mail/dovecot (dovecot-1.0.r22) (Permission denied) > ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed > /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25) [i386-freebsd6] > > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) /var/db/pkg and var/db/ports must be writable for the user too. -- Dixi. Sem.
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