I tried adding myself to that (and logging out and back in) and it didn't make
any difference.
-Kevin
-----
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, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Paul Hartman <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:22 AM
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM,
> Kevin Haddock<[email protected]>
> 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. 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?
>
> Are you in the portage group?
>
>
