I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it shouldn't
need root permissions just to compile programs, right?
-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, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Stroller <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:58 PM
>
> On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Kevin Haddock 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.
>
> If you don't have the root password then just `sudo passwd
> root`.
>
> Alternatively: `sudo su -`.
>
> If someone doesn't want you to have the root password or to
> change it like that, then you're already (changing
> permissions of your own user & randomly changing
> permissions of programs) messing around with the machine
> more than you should be.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
