Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
>Not quite - when dpkg-buildpackage signs the changes and .dsc files, it
>does so as the building user. It only uses sudo to gain root for the clean,
>and binary, targets. (Substitute whatever you use for sudo in the above
>sentence :-)
Well, I did 'su' to root... and built the package... but that failed. Then
I took a peek at a script or two to discover that some of these look at both
variables LOGNAME and USER... if you do a 'su' the USER will be root but the
other will remain with your login name...
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