Building base source

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sun Jun 11 07:52:24 UTC 2017


On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 21:30:11 -0400
Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> The problem is that make installworld wants to chown to root:wheel which 
> will not fly if you are not root.

	Indeed and it should because parts of the system must be owned by
root to work properly.

> The setuid may be an additional issue.  In linux one could still setuid 
> will still not being root.

	You can in FreeBSD too, you can set the setuid bit on any file you
own - but only root can make a file setuid root and some files need to be.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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