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From: brendan@cs.uchicago.edu
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Subject: ports/packages
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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. 

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