Maybe were you thinking about fakeroot ? "fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is u

Maybe were you thinking about fakeroot ? "fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership." https://man.cx/fakeroot(1) https://man.cx/fakeroot(1)