On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Richard,
Hi Ingo, > > Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:14:07PM +0200: > > > I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, > > You are not really explaining what it is that you actually > want to do... > > So i'm guessing a bit: > > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/fakeroot/fakeroot.1.en.html > > says: > > fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to > have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for > allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files > in them with root permissions/ownership. Yeah that's exactly what sfakeroot does. Like I say I looked into porting fakeroot, but it was way too complicated for me to be honest. > > If that is what you need, then the OpenBSD facility serving the > same purpuse is documented here: > > https://man.openbsd.org/mount.8#noperm > > Yours, > Ingo Someone told me about that, but I couldn't see how to use it without already being root (in order to mount an fs with noperm). Maybe I missed something though? Thanks, Richard
