Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:40:06 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@gmx.com> To: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any way to make pkg use 'sudo' instead of 'su' to install as root? Message-ID: <539c64ce-5133-5d88-9cbc-70d2fc4ce99e@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20171231183713.GK2827@home.opsec.eu> References: <c92eb994-1b9b-57ab-cc19-9ae2b28e6cc9@rawbw.com> <20171231183713.GK2827@home.opsec.eu>
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 07:37:13PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > 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 Thanks! I was looking for the same, but was too lazy to go through the mk files. Probably it should be documented in ports(7)?
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