From 305d6a3cd5f6c98292086975a79abd6c5d98fcb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Brinkmann Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:26:06 +0000 Subject: Add items about fakeroot. --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ff542e78..82eb46f3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -63,6 +63,20 @@ or kill a crashing task. Core dumping is planned for but not implemented yet. Users can set their own crash server using an environment variable. +The new fakeroot translator appears to give transparent access to the +underlying directory node. However, all accesses are made using the +credentials of the translator regardless of the client and the +translator fakes success for chown and chmod operations, reporting the +faked IDs and modes in later stat calls. + +The new fakeauth program runs a command with a fake authentication +handle that claims to be root or any arbitrary identity derived from +that handle, but in fact is always just a proxy for your real +authentication handle. + +The features provided by the fakeroot translator and fakeauth are +combined in the new fakeroot program. + The proc server can show the start time of processes. * sync -> syncfs, takes args -- cgit v1.2.3