Subject: Re: why does pkg_delete require root privileges?
To: None <xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
From: Magic Toto <toto@useless-ficus.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/06/2002 02:58:53
Xavier HUMBERT wrote :
| >but if you sudo, then you become root, and the test for rootness
| >succeeds and everything works as designed.
| 
| Without knowing the root passwd. Without even having the root account
| active. That's why sudo exists :-)

Yes, but I don't have *any* root privileges, and thus no 'sudo'
permissions.
I'm simply installing zoularis as a basic user, and as such there is
absolutely no reason why I should have special privileges.