On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:08:09PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016/02/22 15:46, Jiri B wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did quick install and then I executed 'pkg_add -iv $packages' > > under root user. > > > > The output get spammed with: > > > > ftp: /root/.netrc: Permission denied > > > > IIUC this is caused by 'drop_priviledge_and_setup_env' function > > in PackageRepository.pm which changes uid to '_pfetch' which > > spawns /bin/sh that cannot access root's homedir. > > > > OpenBSD 5.9 #1880 Sat Feb 20 2016 > > > > * su - root > > * export PKG_PATH=$path > > * pkg_add -vi $package > > * observe terminal > > > > j. > > > > Confirmed. > > I guess most of us haven't noticed this yet because we are using > HTTP in PKG_PATH because it's so much faster.
Nope, .netrc is ftp's lair. I don't get why ftp (run as pfetch) will try to access root's .netrc. But I'm going to look at it later tonight.
