On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:44, H Brett Bolen wrote: > Is there a way to run rpm as non-root?
Use sudo? Generally, installing system packages needs to be done by root. First and foremost, only root should have write privileges to system directories. Second, only root should have write privileges to the rpm database directory. Using rpm, however, to examine packages, install src rpms to a local setup, query installed packages, etc.. work fine as non-root. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | lovelace(at)wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security threat. -- Bruce Sterling
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