On Monday 03 September 2007, William Xu wrote: > Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May be because this directory is meant to be used by portage only. > > Since it's just a tmp dir, only allowing portage user to read seems > too strict.
It's more than that. It's the portage *BUILD*DIRECTORY* (which just happens to be short-lived, not temp), that's where all your merges are built. Just like you don't want to give just anyone the ability to overwrite your binaries in /bin, you also don't want to give just anyone the ability to overwrite the same binaries while they are being built. This is a very good and valid use of the healthy paranoia that unix admins are supposed to be born with. You can start by investigating the various sandbox and userpriv FEATURES in make.conf (info in the portage man pages), or set up your sudoers to allow you to run commands as portage (I imagine you don't want to debug as root as permission bugs won't show up) alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
