On 11:55 Thu 27 Jan , Zac Medico wrote: > On 01/27/2011 11:08 AM, Matthew Summers wrote: > > One question though. Since the 'portage' user has its $home set by default > > to /var/tmp/portage how would you recommend handling the ssh key situation > > since that directory is somewhat special? > > Well, I've never tried it, so I don't have any recommendation atm other > than to make sure FEATURES=userpriv is not enabled. > > Moving forward, maybe it would make sense to have a notion of a > configurable "fetcher home" that package managers and live/vcs eclasses > would use for the HOME variable only when fetching. For example, the > user could configure this by setting a FETCHER_HOME variable.
This might be useful in other scenarios besides fetching that just haven't occurred to us yet. Perhaps we should treat the portage user as a regular user with a regular home directory that can be configured as desired, and flip in and out of that user on demand. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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