I tried adding myself to that (and logging out and back in) and it didn't make any difference.
-Kevin ----- People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: "Why is THAT THERE?" -Me --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:22 AM > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, > Kevin Haddock<kevinhadd...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > 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? > > Are you in the portage group? > >