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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Andrew J. Bourke" <andrew.bourke@ACS-Mac-Server.Dentistry.Dal.CA>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330144753.24859L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>

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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, 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??

/usr/ports/distfiles is probably writable by root only.  Change
permissions as desired on distfiles and it should work.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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