Re: New ZoneMinder Port

Lydia Sobot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On August 9, 2026 18:08:11 GMT+02:00, vansid <[email protected]> wrote:
>As for running the port make processes as a regular user, the SUDO
>directive is actually mildly confusing...I thought there is no sudo in
>OpenBSD and instead there is doas?  I've seen Stuart and some others
>mention that one should not build ports as root, but clearly some of
>the commands/steps will not work without either elevated permissions
>or specific permissions on certain directories.  Will using this
>directive help in this sense?  I'm just not clear on how to avoid
>using root privileges (like running some of the make commands with
>doas).
Yeah that's fair, it isn't the clearest thing in the world, but actually you should put a line like this: SUDO=doas
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