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From:
Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject:
Re: gotwebd non-root install
To:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:39:33 +0200

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 07:31:52AM -0600, Tracey Emery wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 12:00:54PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > Allow installing gotwebd as a non-root user, provided some directories
> > in /var/www already exist and are writable by this user. ok?
> 
> Can you help me understand why a non-root user would ever want or need
> to install gotwebd? A non-root user cannot configure and run httpd so
> the installation would be useless.

Hmm, well, I was able to run 'make install' as a regular user to test
changes I made to gotweb, after a one-time config setup.
But I see your point that gotwebd is different. It also needs to be
started as root.