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

[Kevin Haddock <kevinhaddock@yahoo.com>]

hmmm... ok, I can see that, but if I use sudo, will distcc try to distribute the compile jobs logging in as my unprivileged user, or will it try doing it as root (on the other machine)?

-Kevin

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--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Galevsky <galevsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Galevsky <galevsky@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:48 AM
> 2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock <kevinhaddock@yahoo.com>:
> > 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. I have set up ssh so I can shell
> 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 still tells me:
> >
> > $ emerge -kuDN world
> > emerge: superuser access is required.
> >
> > Is there any way to do this?
> 
> Yep: as a member of wheel, you should be able to run emerge
> 'as root'
> when sudoing:
> 
> sudo emerge whatyouwant
> 
> Gal'
> 
>