Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:36:15 -0600 From: dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org> To: "Andrew J. Bourke" <andrew.bourke@ACS-Mac-Server.Dentistry.Dal.CA>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding ports Message-ID: <19980328163615.47118@stumpy.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>; from Andrew J. Bourke on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 04:53:03PM -0400 References: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>
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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
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