Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:12:10 +0100 From: Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr> To: James Gill <gill@topsecret.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions of /usr/ports ? Message-ID: <19991123161210.C13915@phy.hr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221537040.3273-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911220947060.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221537040.3273-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net>
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On (22 Nov 15:38), James Gill wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > ->On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > -> > ->> When installing new packages on Unices I usually follow > ->> the procedure where I do all the preparatory work (fetching, > ->> applying patches, playing with configuration, building > ->> the executable, testing) as nonprivileged user and only do "make > ->> install" as root. (BTW, I do "make -n install" first.) > > Why would one configure the ports area to be tinkerable by a nonprivledged > user? Well, the idea is that it is much more secure to compile and test programs as unprivileged user. This is not much of an issue with official ports but it is a good security measure with programs you download from the Net. The other thing (even more important if you ask me) is that I just don't feel comfortable spending too much time in root account. I have a different level of concentration while I'm there and I don't want to lose it by long editing, docs reading etc. root sessions. (Of course, you don't give write access to /usr/ports to everybody but only to, say, people who have root password anyway.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Kresimir Kumericki kkumer@phy.hr http://www.phy.hr/~kkumer/ Theoretical Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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