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author | Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org> | 2015-11-11 23:57:32 +0300 |
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committer | Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org> | 2015-11-11 23:57:32 +0300 |
commit | b26a87a33c4487c98f7cb8e6a5279feb4c79eb16 (patch) | |
tree | 7c7af91bd09405b3ca2e4291aff2200cc8ee2e3f /letsencrypt-auto | |
parent | 5ce92402008f36ab0f5d54e1456a878a6486ee3f (diff) |
Comments on SUDO
Diffstat (limited to 'letsencrypt-auto')
-rwxr-xr-x | letsencrypt-auto | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/letsencrypt-auto b/letsencrypt-auto index 667dcecfd..160de036a 100755 --- a/letsencrypt-auto +++ b/letsencrypt-auto @@ -27,11 +27,16 @@ for arg in "$@" ; do fi done +# letsencrypt-auto needs root access to bootstrap OS dependencies, and +# letsencrypt itself needs root access for almost all modes of operation +# The "normal" case is that sudo is used for the steps that need root, but +# this script *can* be run as root (not recommended), or fall back to using +# `su` if test "`id -u`" -ne "0" ; then if command -v sudo 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then SUDO=sudo else - # `sudo` command does not exist, use `su` instead. + echo \"sudo\" is not available, will use \"su\" for installation steps... # Because the parameters in `su -c` has to be a string, # we need properly escape it su_sudo() { |