On Thursday 21 August 2003 19:39, Rob Cakebread wrote:
> Is there a good reason that $WORKDIR isn't world readable? Should I just
> 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 the 
group portage ... and yes, imo, the $WORKDIR should be o-rwx

portage is going the way of not requiring root ...
-mike