On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:45:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Title should have read: Install ports collection as non-root user > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I'm looking to make a non-privileged user the owner of all my > > software so I don't have to act as root when installing, configuring, > > and updating software. Furthermore, I won't have to give out the root > > password to others who need rights to configure software. I noticed > > my ports collection is entirely owned by root and requires root to > > install. Is there a way to install ports as a non-root user or allow > > non-root users to install ports? > > > > Thanks, > > Brian > > I want to ports collection to be owned by a non-root user. > > Someone suggested sudo. Using sudo will install the app as root, will it > not? Thusly requiring root to configure it?
In order to install the port, you have to be root yes, sudo will allow a command to be run as root, i.e. make install clean. You can configure sudo to only allow the command to be run in a specific directory. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org
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