How do you plan on handling the permissions for the portage directory on the hosting machine? Currently the portage directory is owned by root with everyone else having only read / execute permissions. Just from a security standpoint you would want to avoid root logging in over ssh / sshfs. I guess you could allow the portage user to belong to a group called portage on the machine hosting it. Group portage would have to be allowed RWX on the portage directory. Then you just use user portage, a member of group portage, as the login for sshfs. Of course if you only ran 'emerge sync' from the machine hosting the portage directory then the permissions would not matter.
It would be nice to share the portage. I hate having to sync multiple portages all the time and losing 2.5GB of disk space on every machine I have. Mike On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 01:54, Chris K Ellsworth wrote: > ok im going 2 be useing sshfs from lufs to share my /usr/portage directory > between many machines i see people just talking about shareing the > /usr/portage/distfiles. is it possible to just mount right over the > /usr/portage or is that a bad idea? > > Chris > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
