gabik wrote: > Hi Shahar > > One question. > Why one would need such a "fool the process into thinking it is running as > root"? > I could think only about some testing scenarios and think there are better > ways to test than to implement all this functionality. > > Thank you, > > Gabi > > I'll give you the example that triggered the development of the original fakeroot. When you build a Debian package, you have to be root. This is so that the files you create (and go into the package) don't carry your userid. Thing is, there is no real reason to be root. No actual root privileges are required. Fakeroot is a great tool for allowing you to build Debian packages on system where you don't have root, don't want to type the root password, or are simply security conscious enough to prefer not running as root is not necessary.
Hope this explains it. Shachar _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux