From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 0: 3:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pacific.int.topsecret.net (gill.apk.net [207.54.148.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33087150C8 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gill@topsecret.net) Received: from localhost (gill@localhost) by pacific.int.topsecret.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05686; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:29:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gill@topsecret.net) X-Authentication-Warning: pacific.int.topsecret.net: gill owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:29:25 -0500 (EST) From: James Gill X-Sender: gill@pacific.int.topsecret.net To: Kresimir Kumericki Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ? In-Reply-To: <19991123161210.C13915@phy.hr> 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 Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Kresimir Kumericki wrote: ->> ->> Why would one configure the ports area to be tinkerable by a nonprivledged ->> user? -> -> Well, the idea is that it is much more secure to compile and ->test programs as unprivileged user. This is not much of an ->issue with official ports but it is a good security measure ->with programs you download from the Net. -> The other thing (even more important if you ask me) is that I just ->don't feel comfortable spending too much time in root account. I have ->a different level of concentration while I'm there and I don't want to ->lose it by long editing, docs reading etc. root sessions. ->(Of course, you don't give write access to /usr/ports to everybody but ->only to, say, people who have root password anyway.) That makes perfect sense to me, but i've never had any success tinkering about in the ports tree as a normal luser. If i've got a port installed running make just gives me a series of "attempting to fetch.. ..permission denined" error messages. What do you suggest I do, chmod the /usr/ports to g+w and tinker as a user and install as a root? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message