From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 15:29:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DC037B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF8543E3B for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:29:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020914222923.CIVT16829.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:29:23 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8EMTH9b048311; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8EMTCoF048308; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Jud Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs on building & installing ports as non-root References: From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Sep 2002 15:29:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jud writes: > Would op or sudo work for you? (I think I recall seeing an article about > sudo in one of the *BSD e-zines.) Thanks. I read that recently and it helped me make a long-desired improvement to my system. This is the first I've heard of "op", but its "pkg-descr" makes it sound like it does much the same thing as sudo. (Sadly, "pkg-descr" doesn't point to a home page or other docs.) I've considered your question, but I don't see how allowing a normal user to run particular commands helps out here. Unless I can find that article, I think I'll try just giving ownership of the ports (including /var/db/pkg and /usr/ports and /usr/local) to a new non-root user ("porter"?) and let him maintain the ports. It dooesn't help security much, since a bad port can still mess up a lot of other ports during a "make", but it might make me feel better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message