Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:46:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports as non-root user. Message-ID: <20020928024604.GD66227@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <ws65ws8zzp.5ws@localhost.localdomain> References: <ws65ws8zzp.5ws@localhost.localdomain>
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--P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:41:46AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Main Question: Is the ports system designed to make it possible to install > (all?) ports without being "root"? Now, obviously, there are ports > which one will eventually WANT to run as root or even install as root, > but should I be ABLE to do it as non-root? It hasn't been a design goal in the past. It would probably be nice to support it, but it's a lot of work. You can _build_ many ports as non-root, but installing tends to hard-wire arguments to install(1) that are root-only. Kris --P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lRfsWry0BWjoQKURAtLbAJ4wzXCT5gevq8UcjCbHiUarDni8DgCg5m3s Bd/eHY9r4yn37jHaytmjkcQ= =id32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --P+33d92oIH25kiaB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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