Re: pkgin needs root permission on arm64?

Lloyd Parkes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <162871c7c52a90bb95545de8b0acc9ea71d96831.camel@must-have-coffee.gen.nz>
On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 14:02 +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 10:43 -0500, Ted Spradley wrote:
> > The differences are group write permission on the directory and I'm
> > the
> > owner of sql.log on the system that requires root permission. That
> > is,
> > the permissions are less restrictive on the system that requires
> > root.
> 
> What happens if you fix the permissions? 

I set g+w on /var/db/pkgin on one of my amd64 systems and got the same
error message as you when running pkgin unprivileged. I set g-w on
/var/db/pkgin and everything went back to normal.

Ngā mihi,
Lloyd
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