From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 14:48:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12043 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11955 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24948; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Andrew J. Bourke" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding ports In-Reply-To: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca> 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 Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Andrew J. Bourke wrote: > (v2.2.5) > I got up and running, compiled the kernel, added myself as a user with > adduser - but now I can only install ports as root. If I am not logged in > as root, all the ftp attempts fail. Login as root and they install without > any problems... > > Is there a security issue here that may be causing this?? /usr/ports/distfiles is probably writable by root only. Change permissions as desired on distfiles and it should work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message