Subject: Re: (non)install packages as root?
To: Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/30/2003 07:28:32
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lubos Vrbka wrote:

> > Not enought information. Did you check those permissions too?
> yes, i checked it... they are rwxr-xr-x. well, i think i see the problem
> now... the whole tree is owned by root... so i have to either chown all
> directories there to belong to another user, or change permissions to
> rwxrwxr-x everywhere. the first solution doesn't seem to be ok...

I often have pkgsrc owned by some user. This is okay.

Or I have it owned by a group, like "pkgsrc", and some users are part of
that group.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/