If you start a ports build as root, it will drop privs to the _pfetch and _pbuild user for the respective steps, where the _pbuild user is disallowed to talk network if you use default pf rules.
Den ons 13 maj 2026 kl 17:20 skrev Lisper <[email protected]>: > > Instructions to fetch and build a port as a regular user are documented in > bsd.port.mk(5) but when trying to set PORTS_PRIVSEP as explained in the > manpage, all went wrong. I must have missed something. > > The install process is reserved to privileged users or root, which is right, > no problem. > > But a step-by-step recipe for fetching and building ports as unprivileged > user would be welcome. > > lispy -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
