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From:
Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: fetching and building ports as unprivileged user
To:
Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com>, Lisper <lispy888@gmail.com>, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 14 May 2026 09:17:39 +0200

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> On 2026/05/14 09:03, Janne Johansson wrote:
> > If you start a ports build as root, it will drop privs to the _pfetch
> > and _pbuild user for the respective steps, where the _pbuild user is
> > disallowed to talk network if you use default pf rules.
>
> That's not correct.
> Ports in general is *not* setup to be started as root.

Sorry, my bad.

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