On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:11:49AM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote: | I am not playing with sudoers file! This just a bare install. | | $ ls -ld /usr/ports /usr/src | drwxrwxr-x 46 root wheel 1024 May 10 03:21 /usr/ports | drwxrwxr-x 18 root wsrc 512 Mar 11 16:19 /usr/src | | Isn't it strange that the ports/src directories have write bit group | permission on? | | $ cd /usr/ports/distfiles/ | $ ls -ld . openmotif | drwxr-xr-x 3 sioux wheel 1536 May 10 06:01 . | drwxr-xr-x 2 sioux wheel 512 May 10 03:17 openmotif | $ cat /etc/mk.conf | cat: /etc/mk.conf: No such file or directory | $ | | | | Thanks in advance.
/usr/ports is writeable by you (since you're in wheel) and you created /usr/ports/distfiles (thus owning it). It's not very strange that you can write to directories you own, basic UNIX file permission stuff. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd | On 5/10/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >John Nietzsche wrote: | >> Dear gentleman/madam, | >> | >> i have just installed openbsd 4.1. I am very happy with it, but | >> something i was not expecting is happening: | >> | >> As an ordinary user (belonging to the group wheel) i switched to the | >> ports collection directory (/usr/ports/x11/openmotif) and issued i | >> "make fetch". | >> | >> I got surprised when the tarball started to be dowloaded in | >> /usr/ports/distfiles although its sticky bit is not on. | >> | >> May someone here explain me how it is possible? | > | >Please provide some more info: | > | >$ cd /usr/ports/distfiles | >$ ls -ld . openmotif* | >$ cat /etc/mk.conf | > | >Did you grant yourself permission in the sudoers file? | > | >Disclaimer: I am not running 4.1 | -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]