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Old 15th April 2009
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
The FAQ shows #, but ... if the user is a member of wsrc, then they have write access to /usr/src.
While we are on this subject, it should be clarified that while the kernel can be built with a non-root account which is a member of the wsrc group, building the userland still needs to be done as root.

An obvious consequence of building the kernel with a wsrc group account is that the log in message can be customized merely by building with an account which is a member of wsrc. ie.
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OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008
    joebob@hayseed.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
In this case, the joebob account can be used to build the kernel only if joebob is a member of the wsrc group, & as a result, joebob now shows up in the default log in message.

FWIW.
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