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update ikiwiki-update-wikilist docs to suggest putting it in /etc/sudoers

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Joey Hess 2012-08-09 11:48:30 -04:00
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@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ ikiwiki-update-wikilist [-r]
# DESCRIPTION
`ikiwiki-update-wikilist` is designed to be made suid root, but is not installed
suid by default. If made suid, it allows users to add or remove their names
`ikiwiki-update-wikilist` is designed to be safely run as root by arbitrary
users, either by being made suid and using the (now deprecated suidperl), or
by being configured in `/etc/sudoers` to allow arbitrary users to run.
All it does is allows users to add or remove their names
from the `/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist` file.
By default, the user's name will be added.

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@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ runs ikiwiki to update a given wiki. The wrapper can in turn be made suid,
for example to be used in a [[post-commit]] hook by people who cannot write
to the html pages, etc.
If the wrapper script is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
If the wrapper program is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
security holes. The wrapper is written as securely as I know how, is based
on code that has a history of security use long before ikiwiki, and there's
been no problem yet.

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#!/usr/bin/perl -t
# Add a user to the system wide wikilist.
# This script can safely be made suid.
# This script can safely be made suid or put in /etc/sudoers.
use warnings;
use strict;
use English;