Am Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:48:06 +0200
schrieb Galevsky <galev...@gmail.com>:

> 2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock <kevinhadd...@yahoo.com>:
> > 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

And if you don't want to type password every time change
your /etc/sudoers file accordingly. Check the sudoers man page.


Cheers,
Renat


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