Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:45:59 -0400 From: brian.barto@spectrum-health.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Install ports as non-root user? Message-ID: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34F05E@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org>
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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?
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