sudo won't work for me -- root password is *.
I'll have to try it with ssh r...@localhost, which will work.

Thanks,
 - Jay


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> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:30:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: ports/root/make install
> From: sisso...@gmail.com
> To: jay.kr...@cornell.edu
> CC: misc@openbsd.org
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jay K
> > wrote:
> ssh r...@localhost "cd `pwd` && make install"
>
>
> From man mk.conf:
>
> SUDO Command run by make(1) when doing certain
> operations requiring root privileges (e.g. the
> "make install" portion of "make build"). If set
> to /usr/bin/sudo, this allows one to run "make
> build" as a user other than root (assuming
> sudo is
> set up for that user).

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