Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:40:52 -0400 From: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> To: brian.barto@spectrum-health.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install ports as non-root user? Message-ID: <20050628194052.GB31217@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34F05E@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:45:59PM -0400, brian.barto@spectrum-health.org wrote: > Title should have read: Install ports collection as non-root user > > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > > Hi all. I'm looking to make a non-privileged user the owner of all my > > software so I don't have to act as root when installing, configuring, > > and updating software. Furthermore, I won't have to give out the root > > password to others who need rights to configure software. I noticed > > my ports collection is entirely owned by root and requires root to > > install. Is there a way to install ports as a non-root user or allow > > non-root users to install ports? > > > > Thanks, > > Brian > > I want to ports collection to be owned by a non-root user. > > Someone suggested sudo. Using sudo will install the app as root, will it > not? Thusly requiring root to configure it? In order to install the port, you have to be root yes, sudo will allow a command to be run as root, i.e. make install clean. You can configure sudo to only allow the command to be run in a specific directory. -- Bob Bomar bob@ibsd.us ----------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCwafE9Jm/aTrtdKoRAi7jAKCEmpppIVGRlFdHjx/rX4kFYZfTQgCcDK4Q ntVsukn4/XSxa+qebMyjpj0= =sjvg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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