Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster gmail com>, spake thus: > > It's really a workaround for the fact that sudo isn't configured by > > default. I didn't think that I could safely use sudo in the example > > commands, since even if the Hardening Guide was up and could be linked > > to, there's no guarantee that the user/admin would have successfully > > gone through the setup beforehand. > > I like the idea of using sudo as well, but Stuart's obviously right in > the more global sense of not making assumptions when you're writing a > doc. But... do I sense the need for a sudo-tutorial? :-) Ahem. Since the postulated reader has the root password anyway (or "su -c" ain't gonna work anyway) then why not a single paragraph about adding an entry to "/etc/sudoers"? That done, all that off-putting, error-prone "su -c 'quote this junk'" disappears. You may want to add an admonition to clean up after ones self... Cheers (I withdraw my previous mea culpa about 1952.)
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