On Wed, 12 May 2004 13:06:51 -0700, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm. I didn't know the ports system could do that.
>>
>> But, the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of any
>> makefile automaticallying su to root for me!
>
> OK. Care to explain why you feel that way?
It puzzled me too. I think, it's more of correct way to request for
the password rather than give the failure because of error permission.
Cheers,
Mezz
> It's certainly no less safe than running buildworld and buildkernel as
> root (which is what the current setup encourages) and it's not like su
> doesn't still ask for the root password.
>
> -Chris