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authorFerenc Deak <ferenc.deak@gmail.com>2010-05-11 15:18:36 +0200
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+Fakeroot makes it possible to run commands in an environment faking
+root privileges. This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
+which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, and
+so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.