Allow installation as unpriv user #1599
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From @mobstef in issue ossec#1570: "The FreeBSD build servers create binary packages from ports as non-root user. It is therefore essential, that the Makefile allows installation as non-root user too. The problem with current Makefile is that it explicitly references "root" user and "0" group. Additionally it sets permission on certain directories to 550 and later writes to them, which is possible by root, but not as an unprivileged user. The best solution I came up with is to replace every invocation of "install" command by a macro, that by default sets mode and ownership of files as it used to be ("INSTALL_CMD"). If anybody needs to skip permission and ownership setting, he just need to set "INSTALL_CMD=install"."
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Taken directly from issue #1570
Should help packagers.
This could use more testing, but it worked in the few things I tried.