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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proper overlay permissions
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:39:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c1bc2c0-b0b8-89c9-0b1a-d116d3596aa2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGjDVnmSWk2iLMPjKPaX6wGsmB1Z4nXXAQo2t9Fy0=Z01S_73g@mail.gmail.com>

William McGonagle wrote:
> I want to develop a local overlay on my system, sync it with git, and
> be able to sign my commits with gpg. How can i set the permissions of
> my overlay so that I can do this as a regular user securely? Would it
> be fine to just make me the owner of that directory?
>
>


I'm no expert at this but in the past, I set permissions this way. 
portage:portage and then add the user to the portage group.  When you
first install Gentoo, that is the default permissions, last I looked
anyway.  That should work. 

Hope that helps. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-31 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-31  3:42 [gentoo-user] Proper overlay permissions William McGonagle
2024-10-31 14:39 ` Dale [this message]
2024-10-31 19:17   ` William McGonagle
2024-10-31 20:12     ` Dale
2024-10-31 22:58       ` William McGonagle

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