Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:38:22 -0500 (EST) From: James Gill <gill@topsecret.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221537040.3273-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911220947060.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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? ->> Now, I cannot do that with FreeBSD ports because nonprivileged ->> users don't have write permission on /usr/ports . What do ->> you people do? Do everything as root? ->> If I made /usr/ports/* writable by some other user or group ->> I presume that that would interfere with updating the ports via ->> cvsup. ->> Any suggestions or comments? -> ->chown the ports tree to your port-meister account, and have ->him do the cvsup's instead of as root. he should be able ->to build programs in the tree and you'll still be able to ->su to install. -> ->-Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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