"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:35:07AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >> Yes; I think the other advice was rather bad.
> Really. That sounds like a jab. Is there an ego needing a snack? No, I don't think so. Maybe I wasn't clear. It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only. > What is 'bad' about using sudo? If I have a package that needs to > be owned by root what is wrong with sudo? > I'm not sure what is to like about fakeroot. It lets me create a > setuid root program without asking me if I want to grant this > priviledge to my users. At least sudo has a permission check. If you even think that Linux itself will even *let* you do this, you need to do a little RTM'ing. fakeroot simple *pretends* it is creating files with an ownership of root or what-have you. It doesn't actually do any such thing. Try it. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
