swift       11/08/14 17:58:51

  Modified:             sudo-guide.xml
  Log:
  Sudoers does not care frmo where you are logged on. The hostname field is for the system on which the command is executed. Thanks to Chris X Edwards (chris xed ch) for reporting

Revision  Changes    Path
1.13                 xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml

file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml?rev=1.13&view=markup
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml?r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Index: sudo-guide.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.12 -r1.13
--- sudo-guide.xml	19 May 2008 20:45:27 -0000	1.12
+++ sudo-guide.xml	14 Aug 2011 17:58:50 -0000	1.13
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml,v 1.12 2008/05/19 20:45:27 swift Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml,v 1.13 2011/08/14 17:58:50 swift Exp $ -->
 
 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
 
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
 <license/>
 
-<version>1.6</version>
-<date>2006-07-14</date>
+<version>2</version>
+<date>2011-08-13</date>
 
 <chapter>
 <title>About Sudo</title>
@@ -44,9 +44,7 @@
 application. If you would set the setuid bit, any user would be able to run this
 application (or any user of a certain group, depending on the permissions used).
 You can (and probably even should) require the user to provide a password when
-he wants to execute the application and you can even fine-tune the permissions
-based on the user's location: logged on from the system itself or through SSH
-from a remote site.
+he wants to execute the application.
 </p>
 
 </body>
@@ -120,16 +118,20 @@
 
 <p>
 This syntax tells <c>sudo</c> that the user, identified by <e>user</e> and
-logged on through the system <e>host</e> can execute any of the commands listed
+logged in on the system <e>host</e> can execute any of the commands listed
 in <e>commands</e> as the root user. A more real-life example might make this
 more clear: allow the user <e>swift</e> to execute <c>emerge</c> if he is logged
-on from the system (not through SSH):
+in on localhost:
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Live /etc/sudoers examples">
 swift  localhost = /usr/bin/emerge
 </pre>
 
+<note>
+The hostname must match what the <c>hostname</c> command returns.
+</note>
+
 <p>
 A <brite>big warning</brite> is in place though: do not allow a user to run an
 application that can allow people to elevate privileges. For instance, allowing