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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:09:00 +0300
From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  about permission setting for
	/var/tmp/portage/../work
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On (03/09/07 14:28) William Xu wrote:
> Hi, why the `work' subdir under /var/tmp/.. has this sort of permission
> setting: 
> 
> ,----
> | drwx------ 3 portage portage 80 Sep 3 10:43 work
> `----
> 
> This way, it seems rather difficult for a non-root user to access
> them. Currently I'm trying to debug emacs, which requires me to start
> emacs executable from that directory.
> 
> How to solve this problem? (even sudo doesn't seems to help here?)
> 
> -- 
> William
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Hi,

May be because this directory is meant to be used by portage only.
IMHO that is so because of FEATURES="... userpriv ..." (please check the syntax).
Same must be valid for /usr/portage/distfiles (FAETURES= " ... parallel-fetch userpriv usersandbox...")
Why you need user access to this work-dir.
HTH. Rumen
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