On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kevin Haddock<kevinhadd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?

Are you in the portage group?

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