From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 05:26:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA03412 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 05:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA03405 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 05:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA09176 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 05:26:21 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aa25034; 2 Jul 96 11:59 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa15043; 2 Jul 96 12:53 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01066; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:44:43 GMT Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:44:43 GMT Message-Id: <199607021144.LAA01066@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: tcg@ime.net, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Doug White on Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:31:17 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: src tree owners Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is it safe to chown the src tree so one can use it without > > having to be su. > > > > Is there a `proper` way for this? > > Why? You have to be su to write to anything in there by default (and I > know this from many personal experieneces forgetting to su to root before > editing my kernel config :-). Erm, perhaps that was why he was asking? :-) In any event, you have to be root to be able to *install* anything you've built from the source tree, so there doesn't seem to be a great deal of point in changing it. On Unix, the `proper` way is for configuration files to be owned by root - it's not a good idea to allow just anybody to change them! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/