Re: sudo and cloud images

From: Eduardo Lemos de Sa <eduardo.lemosdesa_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:24:05 UTC 
Dear Generi

Eduardo Lemos de Sa
Professor Titular
Dep. Quimica da Universidade Federal do Paraná
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Em sex., 2 de jan. de 2026 22:02, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri@lebouder.net>
escreveu:

> 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.
>


I install sudo using pkg install sudo (check the sudo version) ou using
porta (security/sudo).

After installed It, it need tô edit /usr/local/etc/ sudoers aiming to set
which users can run sudo (search by root user settings and copy copy the
LINE).


Best regatas

Eduardo


> Regards,
> --
>        Gonéri Le Bouder
>