Re: combining fakeroot and distcc/SSH

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use distcc to compile Debian packages and kernels,
> and am failing. The reason is that I need to use distcc-over-SSH,
> but the Debian compile process is run as (fake)root. Thus, it tries
> to use /root/.ssh for configuration and node verification, which is
> not accessible to the normal user.
>
> The reasons seems to be that OpenSSH uses getpwnam to obtain the
> real UID's home directory, rather than $HOME. This is probably
> a security measure.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem? How could I work around it?

ssh -i usualy helps.

MfG
        Goswin