Re: sudo and cloud images

Hi,

On 1/2/26 21:01, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> 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,
> -- 
>        Gonéri Le Bouder

You must install sudo if you want to use it. The same applies to doas. 
Use 'packages' for this.

I think we should clarify this in the man page and add sudo in the example.