Re: [gentoo-user] Proper overlay permissions

[William McGonagle <wmcgonagle443@gmail.com>]

I appreciate the advice, I will try that. I just installed a few days
ago, and all my overlays are owned by root. I've seen a lot of
conflicting info on this, but I don't see how changing the permissions
like you said could cause any problems. Thanks again!

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:40 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>