Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:54:12 -0500 From: brendan@cs.uchicago.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports/packages Message-ID: <20010911215412.B31143@jedi.cs.uchicago.edu>
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hello questions, i would like to use the ports system with a non-privileged account. say, "installer". is in enough to chown -R installer.installer /usr/local /usr/ports (assuming user/group are installer/installer) is there anything i should watch out for when doing this? will ports that try to access other resources (like adding a file to /var or modifying the boot scripts) give me verbose enough error messages to fix this sort of thing by hand? i like the integration of freebsd, but i don't like the fact that i have to install nonsystem, untrusted software (fetched from third part ftp sites sometimes) as root. i really don't think managing packages should require root access. i would like a way to do this with packages as well. again, what permissions do i need to change other than the package database in /var and the destination directories (it all goes in /usr/local, right?) ? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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