From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 11:31: 1 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 DC06437B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFA443E3B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17bmd7-0006gE-00; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:30:57 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g75HtVMI074613 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:55:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g75HtU7E074612 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:55:30 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: using portupgrade as non-root Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020805154240.GC19231@lara.unibe.ch> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 Tobias Roth wrote: > I am thinking about creating a special user for managing my ports, so I > don't have to do the configure/make part as root. However, at the same > time I would like to use portupgrade. Personally, I keep my /usr/ports at umask 002 and group wsrc. I run "portupgrade -s" and my normal user account has sudo capability. Install security/sudo and have a look. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message