From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: patch: xenocara/fonts/alias: avoid chown dance around fc-cache invocation
To: Sebastien Marie <semarie@kapouay.eu.org>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@herrb.eu>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 15:53:07 -0600

> I am just not fan of giving all the files in a whole directory to a user
> (specially with -R). I assume the `chmod 644` is enough to clean any
> problematic files in ${DESTDIR}/var/cache/fontconfig .

And I see it a different way.

chown and chmod is not dangerous.

Switching to another user is better?  Please ... In what universe???