From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-98575-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1MYiKJ-0003ez-E1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:22:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 431D1E0241; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E48E0241 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so428537gxk.10 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:22:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mnUO8jw53G2r0fXl3HVBl+jJJpUpeWhG0ubB9jYSQB8=; b=bLfHTXVkVpFdGlc4asYGIBzq3wBrRzeh7sMCEByEMmBakJmw9t6qYXrXL8KmUJTCAO Ori5PlYO+xIgPax1r8DkcPN6hgi0KZ+Op47v8Xil2cTwx9P/h4cCPIZqtr44dZP1h2/I ju/D/NP3G5SC5Svk3Stg+vxCyDAlYgj/BwONU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=cv52TBUqZXLMFD31UZqIUChu8E5otliRfXfiGvd53ip3Ryqu98CFemb7bh3pwndgdG 0AqG5T76LI1hJEkdcAQwXE1I0EO4GSRKdB0lt2rf0pW030kpY0ffvzPIL6IoVLmQ3hOY j1hnFlk2c8eP3lUvDw3Y96oDrTO3CrzpoGYmA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.220.10 with SMTP id s10mr15976941ybg.0.1249485769885; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:22:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <756916.11353.qm@web30403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <756916.11353.qm@web30403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:22:49 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d874efd4637357d2 Message-ID: <58965d8a0908050822j45685995y580e01f89c939867@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 39f7ce38-9e7d-4c2d-9247-2a9246a9390f X-Archives-Hash: d976518b01be51661f737eeb40eda9f2 On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kevin Haddock<kevinhaddock@yahoo.com> wrot= e: > I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I don't h= ave root password to. I have a local account with sudo permissions and an a= ccount of the same name on the remote machine. I have set up ssh so I can s= hell across without entering passwords nor pass phrases. I have even added = my user to the group 'wheel' and given it that group permission to execute = all commands. I even went so far as to change all the emerge program files = in /usr/lib/portage/bin to have g+x and belong to the group wheel, but it s= till tells me: > > $ emerge -kuDN world > emerge: superuser access is required. > > Is there any way to do this? Are you in the portage group?