Subject: Re: why does pkg_delete require root privileges?
To: None <>
From: Xavier HUMBERT <>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/05/2002 19:02:26
In message <>,
Aaron J. Grier 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 :-)