How to force run tests as non-root?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Feb 24 21:07:21 UTC 2024


On 25/2/2024 03:07, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> Some of your macports installations are installed as the root user, instead of the macports user.
> 
> This happened because there is no installer for 10.6-ppc to automatically create the macports user. You have an open ticket about this too, where I pointed to the commands to be run to generate the macports user.
> 
> Sooner or later you will probably have to fix this.

It shouldn't make any difference to this whether you use the pkg 
installer or install from source, since the Makefile also creates the 
run user. Unless of course you specifically tell configure 
--with-macports-user=root (very not recommended).

- Josh


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