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| From: | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? | ||
| Date: | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:54:35 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200308211954.34856.vapier@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? by Rob Cakebread |
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| 1 | On Thursday 21 August 2003 19:39, Rob Cakebread wrote: |
| 2 | > Is there a good reason that $WORKDIR isn't world readable? Should I just |
| 3 | > not worry about it and continue requiring everyone run as root? |
| 4 | |
| 5 | have you tried userpriv at all ? that just requires the user to be in the |
| 6 | group portage ... and yes, imo, the $WORKDIR should be o-rwx |
| 7 | |
| 8 | portage is going the way of not requiring root ... |
| 9 | -mike |