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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-08-26 20:32:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-08-26 20:32:01 +0000 |
| commit | 33d3f393eec1eb767d2628a37db00caaad5ed6b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 68bf5e2fd9c1afa72049e3e588ce79d3c2f7349e /share | |
| parent | 86e3dd7fb77284756741bc30728d1865c523519d (diff) | |
improved text for SUDO; from jared rr spiegel (pr #5204);
NOTE: this does NOT close 5204
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/mk.conf.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/mk.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/mk.conf.5 index 2572b35b84c..baff8681923 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/mk.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/mk.conf.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mk.conf.5,v 1.8 2005/11/23 22:11:48 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mk.conf.5,v 1.9 2006/08/26 20:32:00 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre .\" @@ -218,9 +218,12 @@ Compile in support for S/key authentication. .It Ev SKIPDIR A space separated list of directories to be skipped during "make build". .It Ev SUDO -Command to run when doing "make install" portion of "make build". +Command run by +.Xr make 1 +when doing certain operations requiring root privileges +(e.g. the "make install" portion of "make build"). If set to -.Ev sudo , +.Ev /usr/bin/sudo , this allows one to run "make build" as a user other than root (assuming sudo is set up for that user). .It Ev SYS_INCLUDE |