macports user ...

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-9-28 00:45 , Peter Danecek wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some doubt about the the user macports and how it is used exactly. From what I understood most operations when installing MacPorts are performed as macports user, files belong to macports user etc.
> 
> Now I am trying to setup some new port and would need to do some manual testing, i.e. do some operation as macports user. I tried to su to macports user, but this would not work. Any trick how this should be done?

sudo -u macports ...

Actually I think su would work too, but you'd have to run it as root
since there's no password.

What kind of manual testing do you need to do, anyway?

- Josh