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author | Chloe Kudryavtsev <toast@toastin.space> | 2019-03-07 18:45:24 -0500 |
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committer | Chloe Kudryavtsev <toast@toastin.space> | 2019-03-07 18:45:24 -0500 |
commit | 3964d289f8513f7a32ce6d3a0aa9af8aced93410 (patch) | |
tree | 29dbe1628e75f317dac5115765766ea14eca6079 /modules | |
parent | b6bbc3522500f0eadbc646d9a02435beed38b126 (diff) | |
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[Working] Remove su-related TODO
The reality of the situation is kind of complicated.
Canonical su(1) is based on PAM, and PAM can require whatever it wants.
The default however, does not require a special group.
Further, alpine uses busybox by default, which also has no such
requirements.
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diff --git a/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc b/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc index 0cc7db0..cd562ba 100644 --- a/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc +++ b/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Once your user has been created, if the utility you used has not asked you to se Sometimes, you'll want to do something that *does* require administrative powers. While you may switch to a different tty and log in as root, this is often inconvenient. You may gain root privileges ad-hoc using either the built-in busybox utility `su`, or the common external utility `sudo`, available in the package named the same way. -// TODO: verify that `su` truly does not require any special group. `sudo`, unlike `su`, will require additional configuration. The `visudo` utility that comes with it allows you to safely edit the `sudoers` file which configures it. The difference between `sudo` and `su` comes down to which side the permissions come from - `su` allows you to temporarily log-in as another user (and thus requires that you enter the password of the user you wish to log in as), while `sudo` allows you to perform commands (including login shells) as the target user, assuming the configuration gives you that right (meaning that your password is the one used for authentication). |