Install ports as non-root user?

[Bob Bomar]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:45:59PM -0400, brian.barto at spectrum-health.org wrote:
> Title should have read: Install ports collection as non-root user
> 
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm looking to make a non-privileged user the owner of all my
> > software so I don't have to act as root when installing, configuring,
> > and updating software. Furthermore, I won't have to give out the root
> > password to others who need rights to configure software. I noticed
> > my ports collection is entirely owned by root and requires root to
> > install. Is there a way to install ports as a non-root user or allow
> > non-root users to install ports?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> 
> I want to ports collection to be owned by a non-root user. 
> 
> Someone suggested sudo. Using sudo will install the app as root, will it
> not? Thusly requiring root to configure it?

In order to install the port, you have to be root yes, sudo will
allow a command to be run as root, i.e. make install clean.  You 
can configure sudo to only allow the command to be run in a specific
directory.

-- 
Bob Bomar
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