On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:22, Arturo di Gioia wrote:
> Yesterday I updated portage to version 2.0.47-r2.
> It suggested me to add a 'portage' group to allow non root build.
> Unfortunately it didn't give any more information. I tried it (I
> created the portage group and added my user to it). It doesn't work
> (portage still requires root privileges to fetch and compile). I
> tried with no luck to search any information on the forums and on
> portage and make.conf man pages. Does anyone have any useful info
> about that topic? Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure about this, but I think you have to re-login to your 
machine ... only then changes made to /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group 
will take effect.

HTH, Matthias

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