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hello,

this ticket is not related to a problem but to a request for help or advice.

I use the file explorer thunar and the editor mousepad as root user and I have a nice warning at the top of their interface.

just like fakeuser, and to avoid recompiling the two tools after modifying the source code, is it possible to make them believe that they are executed by another user while keeping root privileges ?

both tools use the geteuid function to display or not the warning (see here).

regards.

Hi, I've just created a PKGBUILD for fakeuser, feel free to review it and to add a reference to it in your README if you want. Thanks.

Reason for creating it: probably it will be adopted here.

I would like to add fakeuser support to makepkg (https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-March/020938.html). It would be helpful if fakeuser included a fakeroot/fakechroot-style wrapper script to handle loading the library to prevent makepkg from having to locate and manually preload it.

PKGBUILD: line 30: patch: command not found