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?