From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19061 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Aug 2003 00:14:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4518 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2003 00:14:21 -0000 From: "Rob Cakebread" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:14:10 -0700 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: robc MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1061511250.b0b13f00robc@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? X-Archives-Salt: 7e0c57ab-218d-42a5-a7ea-f62213cbee79 X-Archives-Hash: 3db911641a66593c874e6a5b5c024f7e On Thursday 21 August 2003 04:54 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 19:39, Rob Cakebread wrote: > > Is there a good reason that $WORKDIR isn't world readable? Should I jus= t > > not worry about it and continue requiring everyone run as root? > > have you tried userpriv at all ? that just requires the user to be in th= e > group portage ... and yes, imo, the $WORKDIR should be o-rwx > > portage is going the way of not requiring root ... > -mike No I didn't set 'userpriv' because make.conf says that it also removes sand= box access violations for users. But now I see the 'usersandbox' which re= -enables sandboxing while running with userpriv. Ah ha. Thanks, I think that should do it. Does anyone think its a waste to add all the sudo stuff and run as regular = user? Or just run the app as root? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list