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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>
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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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