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Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin




On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:34 PM, Mark Paulus wrote:

I briefly looked at fakeroot, and determined that it was
too much trouble at the time to work with fakeroot, and it was
quicker to manipulate my /etc/passwd to make my
administrator account be root, and then to telnet back in
to my box as root.

why not just use sudo?

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Paul Baker

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         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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