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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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, Galevsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Galevsky <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:48 AM
> 2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock <[email protected]>:
> > 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'
>
>
