Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

[Kevin Haddock <kevinhaddock@yahoo.com>]

I changed the permissions on my machine.  On the remote machine, it shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right?

-Kevin

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People originally thought the eternal question was:

      "Why am I here?"

But now we know the question is actually:

      "Why is THAT THERE?"

-Me


--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:58 PM
> 
> On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Kevin Haddock wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote
> machine that I don't have root password to. I have a local
> account with sudo permissions and an account of the same
> name on the remote machine.
> 
> If you don't have the root password then just `sudo passwd
> root`.
> 
> Alternatively: `sudo su -`.
> 
> If someone doesn't want you to have the root password or to
> change it like that, then you're already (changing
> permissions of your own user & randomly changing
> permissions of programs) messing around with the machine
> more than you should be.
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
>