-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:41, Zarick Lau wrote: > Hi, > > What is the mean of userpriv in FEATURES inside make.conf? > > Is it something to let a normal user to do emerge?
No > I add userpriv to FEATURES and then > ebuild xxx compile > > and I've got a permission error > > If I want to do ebuild/emerge stuff with normal user acct, > what is the correct way to do so? userpriv allows portage, running as root, to drop root privileges for the compilation. It's a security feature, there is a miniscule chance that a trojan could get implated into the source of a package, without root privs it can't do too much. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u0wcInuLMrk7bIwRAlbZAJ95dYTssv0FUoKeKLFs7EOaqbI6AgCgh2FF CYgX3kXbkZhY6Go8rt/7NDs= =2sxm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
