Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:09:00 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Non-root updating & building Message-ID: <200212091509.KAA56021362@shell.TheWorld.com>
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Hello -stable: What would be a/the Right Way(tm:) to separate the privelege of updating/building vs installing world and/or ports? I've tracked -stable and -ports for a coupla-few years now and have long noticed that updating (cvsup/cvs), building (make) and installing (make install) require being superuser to run (same with ports). So far, the "method" I can think of for this would be to change either the owner or the filemode for /usr/src/* and/or /usr/ports/*, update/build as non-root & install as root. (Owner would be simpler I think, but I'm wondering about things like being at odds with the likes of mtree and friends.) Am I on the right track? Is there any OS support for this, for example, any knobs in, say, make.conf to enable/configure/control this? So far I haven't found any FreeBSD-specific information about this. RTFM pointers welcome. :) Thanks, -kc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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