On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Jay K <jay.krell@cornell.edu> wrote:
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> sudo won't work for me -- root password is *.
> I'll have to try it with ssh root@localhost, which will work.

You must read this first http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports
then you will have correct setup and for system you need to read at
least man afterboot


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>
> Thanks,
> B - Jay
>
>
> ________________________________
>> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:30:32 -0500
>> Subject: Re: ports/root/make install
>> From: sisson.j@gmail.com
>> To: jay.krell@cornell.edu
>> CC: misc@openbsd.org
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jay K
>> > wrote:
>> ssh root@localhost "cd `pwd` && make install"
>>
>>
>> From man mk.conf:
>>
>> SUDO Command run by make(1) when doing certain
>> operations requiring root privileges (e.g. the
>> "make install" portion of "make build"). If set
>> to /usr/bin/sudo, this allows one to run "make
>> build" as a user other than root (assuming
>> sudo is
>> set up for that user).
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