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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