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Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)



On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote:

> > I have a question related to this.  It does seem that to
> > build a package one needs to be root.  A consequence of this
> > it that when I run dpkg-buildpackage, it tries to sign the
> > resulting package with the root pgp key.  This doesn't seem
> > correct to me.
> 
> Yeah, it is perhaps a bug...
> 
> > What do folks do to get around this problem?
> 
> I just made a symlink into my user account's .pgp directory, like thus
> 
> ln -s ~jgoerzen/.pgp ~root/.pgp
> 
> Works for me.  I don't try to modify PGP or anything as root, so it should be 
> OK.

Unfortunately, this doesn't scale when several developers
can su to root.

--- Jean Pierre




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