From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jun 11 07:52:24 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A618C3113F for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:52:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp1.irishbroadband.ie (smtp2.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 416D57EBBD for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp1.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1dJxQ2-0004xc-CP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 08:36:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1dJxQy-000GvT-NR for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:37:16 +0000 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 08:36:08 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith 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: <44y3t19e5i.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <872fe20f-fece-9980-2c8f-10e9492ab786@columbus.rr.com> <20170610052351.000ca108.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170611001151.d3d76bf8.freebsd@edvax.de> <9c41c5df-9874-3e37-8f8c-f58c63419887@columbus.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:52:24 -0000 On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 21:30:11 -0400 Baho Utot 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