Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:39:52 -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: <20050628183952.GA31217@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34F05C@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org> References: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34F05C@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:37:17PM -0400, brian.barto@spectrum-health.org w= rote: > 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 the= re > a way to install ports as a non-root user or allow non-root users to inst= all > ports? >=20 security/sudo, been using it for years, you can specify which users can use what commands. --=20 Bob Bomar bob@ibsd.us ----------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCwZl49Jm/aTrtdKoRAs2sAKCOrdbfwJhDi80imAJ59F1NUNyi7QCeNeTp MFS+nz3TDaXtvvhH1AT+u60= =QBM7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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