ryan woodsmall wrote: > > > sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/local > > > > Do NOT run that. That recursively grants rwx permissions to *every* user on the system for *everything* in that directory. Bad idea. The only time 777 should be granted is on temp directories in conjunction with a sticky bit of some sort. > > Just prefix any "port" subcommands with sudo and you'll be safe. -r /opt/local does not exist normally.. its only Macports and nothing else... nothing has been installed in it yet, so its just Macports executables and config files which are already supposed to be all users. Macports is designed to not be run with sudo anymore... and just like running Wine with sudo, you can really mess things up, and some ports won't even install if you sudo it.
