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SECURITY ASPECTS

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B<fakeroot> is a regular, non-setuid program. It does not enhance a user's privileges, or decrease the system's security.

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FILES

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I</usr/lib/*/libfakeroot-*.so> The shared library containing the wrapper functions.

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ENVIRONMENT

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B<FAKEROOTKEY>

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The key used to communicate with the fakeroot daemon. Any program started with the right B<LD_PRELOAD> and a B<FAKEROOTKEY> of a running daemon will automatically connect to that daemon, and have the same "fake" view of the file system's permissions/ownerships (assuming the daemon and connecting program were started by the same user).

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B<LD_LIBRARY_PATH>

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B<LD_PRELOAD>

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fakeroot is implemented by wrapping system calls. This is accomplished by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/fakeroot and LD_PRELOAD=libfakeroot.so.0. That library is loaded before the system's C library, and so most of the library functions are intercepted by it. If you need to set either B<LD_LIBRARY_PATH> or B<LD_PRELOAD> from within a fakeroot environment, it should be set relative to the given paths, as in B<LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/foo/bar/>