Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:29:37 +0100 From: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what userid do you update system sources under? Message-ID: <YVPrsTN4VfIVQKfy@ceres.zyxst.net> In-Reply-To: <f0a73858-93b1-d13e-58c2-896e4ff8bb6b@langille.org> References: <YVMiaWBxb/dbAPzX@ceres.zyxst.net> <f0a73858-93b1-d13e-58c2-896e4ff8bb6b@langille.org>
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--oedFJJ2SLFqeLB8P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 04:46:15PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >Are you referring to /usr/src? for example... > >I would do that as root. When fetching /usr/src with git, are you doing it from system crontab (and specifying a non-root userid), or are you doing it as root, or as some other user/group which has its own crontab? I'm wondering if it's=20 suboptimal from a system security standpoint to run git as the root=20 user. --=20 J. --oedFJJ2SLFqeLB8P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE8n3tWhxW11Ccvv9/s8o7QhFzNAUFAmFT66cACgkQs8o7QhFz NAWiBw//ezHeDOzF8pGRoFb9K9Jubhpuy17guBlf+IRoBJj4SDy77Lh5KMnuCPE9 b/NX1kyXMGusyZIQ3/RaprKBTB8KUAD2AKUUDm0uWZ5VidyHWhgDrRyyFTQNOV6u HvfK1ts7Z76vzmcAL5lkxrG6s0usy3X5qKgeBr0kcByW3r4cQyvAAtSFXV11M5Ut 5l+DKEHDF7GEglQXfhhuW1TfWbt74RBDGCqtT6j+5ENpxjLA+BrK7PdVHf5oogi9 siinxu4cX8VxXFqtBD0BXpWLRwVxvtQSC1x9Zj+4QVUk2Y6QhG/2lskGO9uIond/ sfc3ltTWJbDSulVr8gKdBItSdG/NQ18HVm2BuDXb85meBEA0HZEpdP19vEIDbJ4Y oOKxTOCTb2opU/nWJKbU9ua34EBkRrCvwybylDtvQGPti77FBcoIXBQn+dcLB3dV Z0bNZjkxnf10vwxZ2k+pzIN2Yn2A7BoNLIcXJpy92tH9Jn808CtSlaVnxfwWoSHI lV6psGmlIU2W6igtX2l/VnB0caZ+3J9MWcU9pY3chAcdoxJ0MMUb5UCB2YayIjOW XU/+Z0dg1HSF8YNCutxHJs5jRcdTecqsVc8zdc9IuEfbLpuHLz1cqfhO1jfmK7KH /HCGyWCKIGcWK1SAjwM87DPZh7igdni3FxP9rkW0HLbkbtrzn/s= =354/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oedFJJ2SLFqeLB8P--
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