On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:15 AM, James Michael DuPont wrote:
--- Paul Baker <pbaker@where2getit.com> wrote: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?Does sudo not use a daemon as well as fakeroot? I will post my question to the cygwin list. But maybe the easier is do to the passwd trick as well.
sudo is like su, only it asks you for your password instead of root's, and it is used to run one command as root, instead of just opening a shell as root. fakeroot was designed to be a drop in replacement for sudo for things that required root, but didn't really require root, like building debian packages.
if fakeroot isn't ported yet, then instead of `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot` use `dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo`
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