[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Portage feature addition

[Steve Long]

Ned Ludd wrote:
>> Just checking; commands run there are run as root, right?
>
> Most often yes they would be preformed as the root user, unless the user
> of portage is in the portage group and has write access to the tree.
>
>> Are they run in a chroot jail?
>
> umm nope.
>
Cheers for the answer; just pondering the security implications (that's why
commit access is so important, i guess).

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