RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-25 Thread Tony S. Sykes
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:05, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Dan, > > It is my works network which has the server. They don't want to create a > root acc

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-24 Thread ed tharp
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 > "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > &g

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-24 Thread Tony S. Sykes
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root To be honest, I don't know with any certainty, but I doubt it Other ideas that occured to me was to setup a proxy on that internal machine and use iptables to transparently forward all port 21 stuff to the proxy, and have the proxy

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 18:48, Frankie wrote: > I personally think he should use rsync to mirror the updates > dir on one of the FTP server > then add that rsync'd dir as an update source for urpmi... > > The whole lot could run from cron. That's the best option, I agree. It's sure to work. --

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
ED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:20, Frankie wrote: > I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Frankie how about softlinking a directory to

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Robin Turner
Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I am behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not create a root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the updates. How do I do this? Can I do this? You could try using rpm with

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Yes. You can do it using sudo. I have never used sudo so I only have a rough understanding of how to set it up. Perhaps others on this list or possibly the expert

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:20, Frankie wrote: > I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Frankie how about softlinking a directory to a remote site and using that? Wouldn't that be feasible? I've never tried so I don't know. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I > am behind a ms proxy which authe

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:08, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > HarM, > > I am able to use the account just not able to get out with it. I am > wanting to use urmpi as it resolves dependency problems, and I don't > have to much time at work to do all the searching. It would be bad > enough if they found ou

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
that might give you somewhere to start looking. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
hanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 16:07, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I > am behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not > create a root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the >