Re: sudo and cloud images

Thank you Eduardo,

So, you log-in the VM and use su to become root. You need the root password for that. This is the part that confuses me because the user_data file becomes mandatory to set the root password, which is a bit counter intuitive.

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026, at 07:24, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote:
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> Eduardo Lemos de Sa
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> Em sex., 2 de jan. de 2026 22:02, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri@lebouder.net> escreveu:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> I install sudo using pkg install sudo (check the sudo version) ou using porta (security/sudo).
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> 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).
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> Best regatas
> 
> Eduardo 
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>> 
>> Regards,
>> -- 
>>        Gonéri Le Bouder