Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:22:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Allow user install Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1207241921490.22690@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <BD95C7EE-11BF-4E9C-BB13-AB9AE22A1DE7@kientzle.com> References: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <CAOfDtXNWnPpLuZNLR0gwKFFksVmTHF8iTb8wqG4Wzj49N2d32w@mail.gmail.com> <BD95C7EE-11BF-4E9C-BB13-AB9AE22A1DE7@kientzle.com>
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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
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