Macports group instead of macports user?

[Russell Jones]

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From: Joshua Root [jmr at macports.org]
Sent: 19 July 2011 17:48
To: Russell Jones
Cc: MacPorts Users
Subject: Re: Macports group instead of macports user?

On 28164-7-23 05:59 , Russell Jones wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My understanding is that Macports 2.0 will allow (require?) one to run the macports system as a special macports user. Would it be possible to run it as any member of a macports group? This would be useful to us if, for instance, we want to work on porting a program with a user and allow them to develop and test a Portfile, but don't want to give them full sysadmin rights.

The only change to this stuff in 2.0 is that we have privilege dropping
turned on in macports.conf.default and create a user at install time to
use with it. You can already set macportsuser to whatever (existent)
user you like in 1.9.

You can also set whatever ownership you like on the prefix. If a user
has sufficient privileges to write to files in the prefix, they don't
have to use sudo to install ports. The macportsuser setting is only used
when port is started as root. (Can't drop privileges you don't have.)

- Josh
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Ah, I see. That's good to hear. When building packages under linux, root (or fakeroot) privileges are sometimes required. I thought there might be similar issues with building source under MacPorts.

Russell