[Linux-disciples] Installing a Debian package without root access

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:48:37AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> But it doesn't work this way. Dpkg seems to check whether
> it's running as root when it starts; if it's not, it stops
> running.

You could probably do fakeroot, although I haven't tried it.

> Are there good security reasons for it to run this way, or
> is it more or less arbitrary?

Well, yes. Debian is a complicated system of package dependencies,
auto-install, etc., and is contemplated to be systemwide. A lot of
systems would have to be "reconceived" if they were to be per-user.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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