From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 14:36:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (stumpy.dannyland.org [207.229.133.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17498 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 14:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: (from dannyman@localhost) by stumpy.dannyland.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA07205; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:36:15 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980328163615.47118@stumpy.dannyland.org> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:36:15 -0600 From: dannyman To: "Andrew J. Bourke" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding ports Mail-Followup-To: "Andrew J. Bourke" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>; from Andrew J. Bourke on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 04:53:03PM -0400 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 04:53:03PM -0400, Andrew J. Bourke wrote: > (v2.2.5) > I got up and running, compiled the kernel, added myself as a user with > adduser - but now I can only install ports as root. If I am not logged in > as root, all the ftp attempts fail. Login as root and they install without > any problems... > > Is there a security issue here that may be causing this?? If you are in a group that is shared with root, you could make directories in the ports hierarchy group-writeable ... but then, you would still want to be root for "make install" operations. The easy way, imho, is just to su and make install, though ymmv. man chmod :) -- //Dan -=- This message brought to you by djhoward@uiuc.edu -=- \\/yori -=- Information - http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ -=- aiokomete -=- Our Honored Symbol deserves an Honorable Retirement To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message