Re: Question: wip, git, ssh and permissions

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 24 August 2015 at 22:21, Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>>
>> If I connect to git using ssh under my regular non-root account, will
>> I be able to transfer data, or should I connect using a root account,
>> in which case I'll have to make another keypair under root?
>
>
> Though shallst never work as root unless absolutely neccessary.
> cvs and git most likely do not call for root.

I am sorry, but if you want to write to /usr/pkgsrc you need root,
don't you? Otherwise you have to "chown" the whole tree to your
regular user.