From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 5:29:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcfw1d.bridge.com (bcfw1d.ext.bridge.com [167.76.159.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EEE37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 05:29:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tayers@bridge.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bcfw1d.bridge.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f28DUEI21089; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:30:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from unknown(167.76.56.34) by bcfw1d.bridge.com via smap (V5.5) id xma021028; Thu, 8 Mar 01 07:29:57 -0600 Received: from mnmailhost (mnmailhost.bridge.com [167.76.155.14]) by mail1srv.bridge.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08820; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:28:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from 89-7 by mnmailhost (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id IAA29150; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:28:43 -0500 To: Subject: Re: giving users privledges References: From: Tim Ayers Date: 08 Mar 2001 07:28:41 -0600 In-Reply-To: "G. Jason Middleton"'s message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:15:31 -0500" Message-ID: <8zmgo0dy.fsf@tim.bridge.com> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "J" == G Jason Middleton writes: J> i have a friend that wants to run a halflife server on my J> machine...and administer the halflife server... i was wondering if J> you could tell me how to set the users privledges so that eh can J> install the port and administer it....whether it be installing it J> to his home directory or what not. If he will be installing it to his home directory you don't need to do anything special. He has privileges to write to his own directory, so there you go. But when he installs the half-life port he will have to use the PREFIX option as explained in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-trouble.html. HTH and Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message