From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 15:04:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09A5106566C for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F018FC14 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (www.darkmindweb.com [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E24FC46 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.121.16.254 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <80674226c5ead62b213864dcd36b6a75.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20110721100259.GA5326@external.screwed.box> References: <20110721100259.GA5326@external.screwed.box> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:04:57 -0400 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: build ports from not a root user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:58 -0000 On Thu, July 21, 2011 6:02 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. > How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) before > to > build the dependencies? > Can portupgrade handle this? > Dependencies should be installed from a root user. Install sudo, and (as long as your permissions are set correctly) the ports system can do everything except the install and configure from a user in the 'wheel' group. Daniel Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------