On Wed, Dec 11, 2002, Vinod Kutty wrote:
> [...]
> > By the way, you don't have to build the bootstrap script from
> > source as root. Any user can do that, but to install it you need root
> > priveleges of course.
>
> Yes, I understand that (about building). The question is (and I realize
> you may not be in a position to answer this) after building, for the
> install, is there anything within the openpkg root dir or below that would
> be negatively impacted by running as non-root? I installed as the user
> 'opkg' and it warned me that various steps were not being performed
> (/etc/shells, user + group creation, etc.), which I knew about from
> reading through the .sh script, but what's not clear is the impact within
> the openpkg directory.
No, installing and running an OpenPKG instance as non-root is supported
by OpenPKG. The only drawback is that you cannot use some packages which
require the restricted or nobody users and/or setuid/setgid things. So,
you certainly cannot run the Postfix MTA inside your instance. But all
standard tool packages work just fine, of course.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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