From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 12:50:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47C914BE0 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04197; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:17:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:17:14 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: James Gill Cc: Kresimir Kumericki , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, James Gill wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > ->On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > -> > ->> When installing new packages on Unices I usually follow > ->> the procedure where I do all the preparatory work (fetching, > ->> applying patches, playing with configuration, building > ->> the executable, testing) as nonprivileged user and only do "make > ->> install" as root. (BTW, I do "make -n install" first.) > > Why would one configure the ports area to be tinkerable by a nonprivledged > user? because that nonprivledged user is myself? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message