Subject: Re: Using sudo?
To: Jon Miner <miner@doit.wisc.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/10/2000 11:57:37
Jon Miner wrote:

> It occurs to me that it would be nice if the pkgsrc detected if sudo was
> installed on a machine and used that instead of "su" directly to install
> software...
> 
> Has anybody looked into that?

Not automagic detection, but I have in my /etc/mk.conf:

	SU_CMD?=  priv sh -c

and this works well.

Simon.
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