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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:32:25
Message-Id: 200701161328.45039.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT) by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 22:46 +0000, Stephen Bennett wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:36:06 +0000
4 > >
5 > > Tristan Heaven <nyhm@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 00:53 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
7 > > > They have to be able to read /usr/games/lib.
8 > >
9 > > In which case adding the portage user to the games group seems overall
10 > > to be a better solution than requiring root privileges to build.
11 >
12 > Sure, and it means getting every single user that merges games to change
13 > their systems. It's possible, but something that would take a very long
14 > time to accomplish.
15
16 No, just have some hack that fixes the permission on the /usr/games/lib
17 directory to include read for others (if needed).
18
19 Paul
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22 Paul de Vrieze
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