Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin

--- Paul Baker <[email protected]> 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.

Mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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