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From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
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Cc: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Allow user install
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>
>
> Does fakeroot itself require root permissions to run?
>
> I was under the impression that it used some form of
> loopback mount which --- at least in FreeBSD --- still
> requires root permissions.

I thought it was an LD_PRELOAD wrapping g/setuid and friends.

-Ben Kaduk