On 2014-06-10, Alexander Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > On June 10, 2014 6:24:17 AM CEST, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: >>> http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html shows the 'cvs update' command >>being >>> run by root ("#" shell prompt), and I wouldn't expect any non-root >>user >>> to have write permission to /usr/src anyway. So... why is doing the >>> cvs-update as root a bad idea? >> >>Is this a kind of bad joke? Running anything as root unless it >>absolutely requires root privileges is a bad idea. Put yourself in the >>wsrc group, and you'll be able to write into /usr/src. >> >>Miod > > Indeed, however I agree that '#' suggests that the command is to be run as > root, and could be confusing.
Agreed, but this needs more work than just s/#/$/, as the suggested method to extract src.tar.gz etc don't leave the files with suitable ownership/perms. Diffs (to www/build/mirros/anoncvs.html.head please) are welcome :)
