Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:13:02 +0200 From: Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Subject: Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends Message-ID: <l2wdfe7d2901004260113g1d3598e9we91f01dc3b026162@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BD51CD5.9040304@FreeBSD.org> References: <u2ta0777e081004251203t90986559m54fe956b679801@mail.gmail.com> <4BD51CD5.9040304@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4/26/10, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think? i don't mind very much, but imho... > OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like > this that require root access to actually change things as a regular > user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the > command as root. ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. what if i, as a regular user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? that wouldn't be "painless" :) -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla
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