Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:48:56 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld as someone other than root? Message-ID: <19981228224856.A14175@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <19981228145942.A29832@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:59:42PM -0800 References: <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net> <19981228145942.A29832@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:59:42PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: > 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: > ... Last time I tried, there was at least one instance of a makefile explicitly setting BINGRP (/usr/src/games/dm/Makefile), which broke non-root 'make buildworld' for me. I suppose adding yourself to the 'games' group isn't a very big risk. [this also isn't very hard to "fix", but the obvious fix breaks the reason it's there in the first place]. -- Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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