Well, it was more of a theoretical "sure". And anyway, you seem to have missed the "can chroot" part of my reply. Normal users cannot chroot under "normal" setups. Also, your user would need to be able to create arbitrary bind mounts.

Currently, the check that generates that error just checks the current UID and bombs if it's anything other than 0 (root). I'm sure if somebody (how about you?) contributed code to query the kernel for certain abilities (like chrooting), the catalyst developers would be more than happy to add it in to allow non-root catalyst use where the user has the necessary abilities.

Caleb Cushing wrote:
I had access to what I think are all the files and directories needed.
I put everything in custom locations. that I could write to. but
catalyst complained I needed to be root. and it was catalyst not a
permission error.

!!! catalyst: This script requires root privileges to operate

On 11/27/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As long as you run it as a user that has access to all the files/dirs that catalyst touches *and* can chroot (probably only doable through selinux and
friends), sure :P

Caleb Cushing wrote:
> can catalyst be run without root access?

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