You are completely right, and I was wrong about this. I am now not certain how it came to be that macports was installed under the root user for the 10.6-ppc installation in the mentioned ticket (assuming I got the part right).
K > On Feb 24, 2024, at 13:07, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 25/2/2024 03:07, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> Some of your macports installations are installed as the root user, instead >> of the macports user. >> This happened because there is no installer for 10.6-ppc to automatically >> create the macports user. You have an open ticket about this too, where I >> pointed to the commands to be run to generate the macports user. >> Sooner or later you will probably have to fix this. > > It shouldn't make any difference to this whether you use the pkg installer or > install from source, since the Makefile also creates the run user. Unless of > course you specifically tell configure --with-macports-user=root (very not > recommended). > > - Josh