<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Comer Duncan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:comer.duncan@gmail.com" target="_blank">comer.duncan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>comermacpro:site-packages comerduncan$ cd python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info/</div>
<div>comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ ls</div>
<div>total 48</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 970 Mar 27 18:21 PKG-INFO</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 563 Mar 27 18:21 SOURCES.txt</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1 Mar 27 18:21 dependency_links.txt</div>
<div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 3 Mar 27 18:21 requires.txt</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 9 Mar 27 18:21 top_level.txt</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1 Nov 1 04:29 not-zip-safe</div><div>comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ cat top_level.txt</div>
<div>cat: top_level.txt: Permission denied</div><div>comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ sudo cat top_level.txt</div><div>Password:</div><div>dateutil</div></div><div><br></div><div>So, how come root rw is not enough for sudo?? If that is not the likely thing, then what might I do next? </div>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1. It needs to be readable by everyone, not just root.</div><div>2. MacPorts does not do actual build operations as root, but as an unprivileged user, for sandboxing reasons. </div>
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