On Thu, December 7, 2006 10:44 am, Karsten Wade wrote: |*| On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:15 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac wrote: |*|> Hi people. |*|> |*|> I am about to start writing draft for Users/Accounts module of the |*|> guide. Can anybody confirm whether I'm on the right track if module is |*|> structured as per below: |*|> |*|> 1] Intro |*| + - Briefly say what the entire chapter/section covers |*|> - A bit about the general stuff (multi-user system, root vs |*|> unprivileged accounts, etc.) |*|> - Explanation of relevant files in /etc |*|> - What happens in the background when adding/modifying users/groups |*|> 2] Managing users/groups using system-config-users |*|> 3] " using command line utilities |*|> 4] Password policies |*|> 5] Additional documentation |*|> |*|> Does anything else needs covering? |*| |*| Other than that addition above, the list seems complete to me. I |*| reviewed and lightly edited/reformatted that page, the work is good. Thanks |*| Oh, is it worth mentioning or even just linking to SELinux |*| documentation? Using su to switch users does not necessarily change the |*| user's role, does it? |*| |*| Do you think it is worth covering permission escalation, e.g., su and |*| sudo? I considered this with the targeted audience in mind, which I think is more technical than say, DUG's readers. Therefore I wanted to avoid paranoid approach to root account usage (with few warnings, of course) and write a bit about sudo, as widely accepted good way of obtaining privileges for one-off jobs. Linking to SELinux docs from here seems more appropriate than other-way-around. |*| There is content about sudo that we can pull as-is with updates into |*| this guide. It is unpublished AFAICT, but the source is in CVS: |*| |*| http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/docs/source/sudo-tutorial/ |*| http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/docs/source/sudo-tutorial/en_US/sudo-tutorial.xml |*| |*| You can grab the module, which may not build as-is, by doing this: |*| |*| cd /path/to/local/CVS/sandbox |*| export CVSROOT=:ext:<username>@cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/docs |*| cvs -z3 co docs-common sudo-tutorial Will co this and have a look. Cheers, Vladimir |*| I just tested, and this works: |*| |*| cd sudo-tutorial |*| make html-en_US |*| |*| You can then copy/paste from the HTML into the Docs/Drafts/... Unless |*| this belongs in someone else's module. :) In that case, they should use |*| this content. :) :) |*| |*| - Karsten |*| -- |*| Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project |*| Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject |*| quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 |*| ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ |*| -- |*| fedora-docs-list mailing list |*| fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx |*| To unsubscribe: |*| https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
