Adding a regular user to the portage group [SOLVED]

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podollb · Post by **podollb** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:13 am

Is there an easy way to add a person to the portage group? I thought it might be as easy as just adding my user (non-root) to the actual group named portage. But that didn't seem to work. Should it have? If not, what are the steps to do that?

user118696 · Post by **user118696** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:31 am

I don't see why usermod -G portage <username> shouldn't work?? Never tried but... who knows.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:50 am

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gpasswd -a <user> portage

podollb · Post by **podollb** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:58 am

ok thanks. Now it still complains that "root access is required" when I try to emerge anything as a regular user even after I added myself to the portage group. I am starting to get the feeling it really isn't something that is meant for regular users...

kimchi_sg · Post by **kimchi_sg** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:09 am

podollb wrote:Now it still complains that "root access is required" when I try to emerge anything as a regular user

That's the point it is trying to tell you!

In Unix / Linux the root user is unique. There is one and only one root user. All others are mortals, regular users.

No matter what group / passwd file settings / phase of the moon / hurricane it is, no other user can do any task that requires root user's powers.

If you want mortal users to do things which require root priviledges, consider installing and configuring the sudo package. This guide will help you configure sudo.