Using emerge as simple user

vic · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 22

Hello,

I'd like to install some software as simple user and not as root, is it possible to do it with emerge or will i have to do it by hand ?

vic

Dimitri · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 8:49 am Post subject:

Hi
perhaps you can use sudo so you don't have to su on a konsole. I never tried to emerge as a normal user, but this user will have to have write acces on /var/tmp/portage and the directory where the program will be installed. If you give a normal user these rights you will insecure you hole system. (Don't laught about it. 1 Month ago I had to reinstall my system because of some strage things netstat showed connections to computers I didn't know...)

So better read the gentoo security guide and make a su on the konsole if you emerge a program.

Dim
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vic · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 22

Don't worry i won't give such rights to any user :o)

That's for security purposes (and also to make things less messy) i wanted to do this, since i like to run as few apps as possible as root.

After all i only need to run them as standard user, not necessarily install them so this was a stupid question :-)

vic

rac · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject:

There is a note on the gentoo.org main page that fakeroot building for emerge is now supported, but I haven't looked into the details yet.
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