sudo and cloud images
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Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:01:46 UTC
Hi,
I maintain a pet-project where I provide FreeBSD images with Cloud-Init. I've been doing this for a couple years and I'm happy to see this is something FreeBSD support natively now. I like the nuageinit approach, is simple and straightforward.
I'm testing the FreeBSD 15 cloud image and sudo is not installed by default, which is a decision I understand. What is the "correct" way to get root privileges? Do you use a user_data file to set a root password, and just use "su"? If so, what the point of the password, it sounds like some extra complexity.
Regards,
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Gonéri Le Bouder