[gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: sudo-guide.xml

["Sven Vermeulen" <swift@lark.gentoo.org>]

swift       05/08/02 17:48:20

  Modified:    xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft sudo-guide.xml
  Log:
  Fix spelling mistakes, add %group information

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1.2       +19 -9     xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/sudo-guide.xml

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Index: sudo-guide.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/sudo-guide.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- sudo-guide.xml	2 Aug 2005 16:14:21 -0000	1.1
+++ sudo-guide.xml	2 Aug 2005 17:48:20 -0000	1.2
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/sudo-guide.xml,v 1.1 2005/08/02 16:14:21 swift Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/sudo-guide.xml,v 1.2 2005/08/02 17:48:20 swift Exp $ -->
 
 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 <p>
 The <c>app-admin/sudo</c> package allows the system administrator to grant
 permission to other users to execute one or more applications they would
-normally have no access to. Unlike using the <e>setuid</e> bit on these
+normally have no right to. Unlike using the <e>setuid</e> bit on these
 applications <c>sudo</c> gives a more fine-grained control on <e>who</e> can
 execute a certain command and <e>when</e>.
 </p>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 <p>
 One additional advantage of <c>sudo</c> is that it can log any attempt
-(succesful or not) to run an application. This is very useful if you want to
+(successful or not) to run an application. This is very useful if you want to
 track who made that one fatal mistake that took you 10 hours to fix :)
 </p>
 
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
+The user name can also be substituted with a group name - in this case you should
+start the group name with a <c>%</c> sign. For instance, to allow any one in
+the <c>wheel</c> group to execute <c>emerge</c>:
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="Allowing the wheel group members to execute emerge">
+%wheel  localhost = /usr/bin/emerge
+</pre>
+
+<p>
 You can extend the line to allow for several commands (instead of making a
 single entry for each command). For instance, to allow the same user to not only
 run <c>emerge</c> but also <c>ebuild</c> and <c>emerge-webrsync</c> as root:
@@ -297,8 +307,8 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Of course, this behaviour can be changed: you can set the <c>Defaults:</c>
-directive in <path>/etc/sudoers</path> to change the default behaviour for a
+Of course, this behavior can be changed: you can set the <c>Defaults:</c>
+directive in <path>/etc/sudoers</path> to change the default behavior for a
 user.
 </p>
 
@@ -311,7 +321,7 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-A setting of <c>-1</c> would remember the password indefinately (until the
+A setting of <c>-1</c> would remember the password indefinitely (until the
 system reboots).
 </p>
 
@@ -319,7 +329,7 @@
 A different setting would be to require the password of the user that the
 command should be run as and not the users' personal password. This is 
 accomplished using <c>runaspw</c>. In the following example we
-also set the amount of retries (how many times the user can re-enter a password
+also set the number of retries (how many times the user can re-enter a password
 before <c>sudo</c> fails) to <c>2</c> instead of the default 3:
 </p>
 
@@ -334,7 +344,7 @@
 
 <p>
 If you however want to allow a user to run a certain set of commands without
-providing any password whatsoever, you need to prepend the commands with
+providing any password whatsoever, you need to start the commands with
 <c>NOPASSWD:</c>, like so:
 </p>
 
@@ -382,7 +392,7 @@
 <p>
 By default, if a user has entered his password to authenticate himself to
 <c>sudo</c>, it is remembered for 5 minutes. If the user wants to prolong this
-period, he can run <c>sudo&nbsp;-v</c> to reset the timestamp so that
+period, he can run <c>sudo&nbsp;-v</c> to reset the time stamp so that
 it will take another 5 minutes before <c>sudo</c> asks for the password again.
 </p>
 



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