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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
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Subject: Re: Any way to make pkg use 'sudo' instead of 'su' to install as root?
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Hi!

> 'make install' calls pkg, which does su to change to the root account. 
> su asks for the root password again and again when there are many 
> packages to install.
> 
> Is there any way to configure this to be 'sudo'?
> 
> 
> pkg.conf(5) seems to have no info on this.

In Mk/bsd.commands.mk I found SU_CMD, so maybe redefining SU_CMD works ?

# Command to run commands as privileged user
# Example: "/usr/local/bin/sudo -E sh -c" to use "sudo" instead of "su"
SU_CMD?=                /usr/bin/su root -c

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