Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 08:36:08 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building base source Message-ID: <20170611083608.6338577f99f71364623f7446@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <9c41c5df-9874-3e37-8f8c-f58c63419887@columbus.rr.com> References: <e4198baf-27e2-2e25-c9b5-9f4dbaccde7e@columbus.rr.com> <44y3t19e5i.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <872fe20f-fece-9980-2c8f-10e9492ab786@columbus.rr.com> <20170610052351.000ca108.freebsd@edvax.de> <df541c25-2a05-f3b9-9da6-138c55d7e73f@columbus.rr.com> <20170611001151.d3d76bf8.freebsd@edvax.de> <9c41c5df-9874-3e37-8f8c-f58c63419887@columbus.rr.com>
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 21:30:11 -0400 Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > The problem is that make installworld wants to chown to root:wheel which > will not fly if you are not root. Indeed and it should because parts of the system must be owned by root to work properly. > The setuid may be an additional issue. In linux one could still setuid > will still not being root. You can in FreeBSD too, you can set the setuid bit on any file you own - but only root can make a file setuid root and some files need to be. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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