Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:59:42 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld as someone other than root? Message-ID: <19981228145942.A29832@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net>; from Paul Traina on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:30:02PM -0800 References: <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Paul Traina wrote: > Before I go beating my brains around an impossibility, has anyone ever played > with making at least the initial part of 'buildworld' buildable as someone > other than root? I routinely do "make buildworld" as a normal user. I first source the following: export BINOWN=mph export BINGRP=mph export LIBOWN=mph export LIBGRP=mph export KMODOWN=mph export KMODGRP=mph export SHAREOWN=mph export SHAREGRP=mph export DOCOWN=mph export DOCGRP=mph export INFOOWN=mph export INFOGRP=mph export MANOWN=mph export MANGRP=mph export NLSGRP=mph export NLSOWN=mph (I, of course, am "mph".) That keeps explicit chown/chgrp's from failing. I don't remember ever having problems with mtree; I think that failure to chown or chgrp is a non-fatal error. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * UNIX is a lever for the intellect. -J.R. Mashey http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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