build ports from not a root user?

[Daniel Staal]

On Thu, July 21, 2011 6:02 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote:

> I'd like to build my ports from not a root user.
> How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) before
> to
> build the dependencies?
> Can portupgrade handle this?
> Dependencies should be installed from a root user.

Install sudo, and (as long as your permissions are set correctly) the
ports system can do everything except the install and configure from a
user in the 'wheel' group.

Daniel Staal

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