Best Practices: creating alternate user account to use MacPorts in?

[Nick]

Found the issue, my PATH was pointing to an older macports binary which
used different macports.conf!  No help required now.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM Nick <atod101101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My proposal here is to create a new user account for macports and
> development work.  Logged into this account 'mp0' I tried:
>
> ./configure --with-no-root-privileges --prefix=${HOME]/mp-install
> --with-install-user=mp0 --with-install-group=mp0
> make
> make install
>
> However, now when I try to install a port I get an error that macports has
> insufficient privileges to write to the install directory.  I can touch
> files in this directory without any error.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on resolving this?
>
> I created the account using dscl, not sure if there is something that I
> should be aware of doing this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM Nick <atod101101 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What are best practices in sandboxing MacPorts to a non-admin user
>> account and still retaining the ability to use XQuartz?
>>
>> For instance, I would like to invoke all applications as a certain user,
>> without administrative privileges, however at the same time still be able
>> to use XQuartz graphically from my privileged account. I was hoping XQuartz
>> could be installed specific to this non-admin user as well.  Unsure if such
>> isolation is possible.
>>
>> I'm doing some sandbox testing.  I see a 'macports' user, however in my
>> first installation many of the files in /opt/local are owned by root.  I
>> was hoping to install a specific to a user account for all MacPorts.
>>
>
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