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. > > 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? > > 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 It is unpublished AFAICT, but the source is in CVS: 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 I have only anonymous access to CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/docs Found sudo-tutorial draft there, written by Paul Frields and Tommy Reynolds though. Are we talking about the same document? 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 >
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