I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right?
-Kevin ----- People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: "Why is THAT THERE?" -Me --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > From: Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:58 PM > > On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Kevin Haddock 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. > > If you don't have the root password then just `sudo passwd > root`. > > Alternatively: `sudo su -`. > > If someone doesn't want you to have the root password or to > change it like that, then you're already (changing > permissions of your own user & randomly changing > permissions of programs) messing around with the machine > more than you should be. > > Stroller. > > >