Hi,

just try to upgrade your packages with pkg_chk -u as a non root user and
notice this:

01:33 /usr/bin/env /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/db/pkg -r glib2-2.8.3
pkg_delete: cannot open pkgdb: Permission denied
pkg_delete: had problem removing irssi-icb-0.14nb6
pkg_delete: cannot open pkgdb: Permission denied
** '/usr/bin/env /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/db/pkg -r glib2-2.8.3' failed
01:33 /usr/bin/env /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/db/pkg -r libgsf-1.12.3nb2
pkg_delete: cannot open pkgdb: Permission denied
pkg_delete: had problem removing xsane-0.97
pkg_delete: cannot open pkgdb: Permission denied
** '/usr/bin/env /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/db/pkg -r libgsf-1.12.3nb2' failed

I use the following lines in my /etc/mk.conf:

.if exists(/usr/pkg/bin/sudo)
SU_CMD=/usr/pkg/bin/sudo /bin/tcsh -c
.endif

There wasn't even an try to invoke sudo for the pkg_delete.

Bernd