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authorClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2010-07-09 15:47:36 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2010-07-31 14:04:48 -0500
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Added description of how to add user to the mock group (BZ# 570434)
added description of how a user may add themselves to the mock group to the mock man page. Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
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@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ examples of how to set them, and their default values.
For backwards compatibility, old-style commands, ("rebuild", "init", "clean",
etc.) without leading '\-\-' are still accepted, but are deprecated. See
COMMANDS section, below, for detailed listing of all commands.
+.LP
+To use mock, a user should become a member of the \fBmock\fR group by
+adding their username to the \fBmock\fR line in /etc/group. This can
+be done with the following command:
+.P
+ \fBsudo /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G mock $USER\fR
+
+Note that mock is not intended to be run directly as root.
.SH "COMMANDS"
.LP