From: Janne Johansson Subject: Re: fetching and building ports as unprivileged user To: Janne Johansson , Lisper , ports@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 09:17:39 +0200 > 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. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.