Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

[Galevsky]

2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock <kevinhaddock@×××××.com>:
> I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I don't have root password to. I have a local account with sudo permissions and an account of the same name on the remote machine. I have set up ssh so I can shell across without entering passwords nor pass phrases. I have even added my user to the group 'wheel' and given it that group permission to execute all commands. I even went so far as to change all the emerge program files in /usr/lib/portage/bin to have g+x and belong to the group wheel, but it still tells me:
>
> $ emerge -kuDN world
> emerge: superuser access is required.
>
> Is there any way to do this?

Yep: as a member of wheel, you should be able to run emerge 'as root'
when sudoing:

sudo emerge whatyouwant

Gal'