From 214d32135a3e1a483cbd8585f640759d6b246d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Henry Lewenberg <adamhl@stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:38:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update docs with new sudo instructions
---
README.md | 17 +++++------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f465e55..316fc66 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The following Ubuntu distributions are supported:
* trusty
* xenial
* bionic
+* focal (coming soon)
## Installing the necessary packages
@@ -48,17 +49,9 @@ The above also installs a daily cron job to update the chroots.
## Using sudo
-In order to run `pbuilder` as a non-root user you need to add the
-following line to `/etc/sudoers`:
+In order to run `pbuilder` as a non-root user you need to tell sudo that
+all users who are members of the `root` group can run cowbuilder. The
+`su_debuild` module sets this up in sudo for you automatically by adding a
+file to `/etc/sudoers.d` containing this line:
%root ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/cowbuilder
-
-The `su_debuild` module provides a convenience class to do this,
-[`su_debuild::sudo`](manifests/sudo.pp). Here is how you can install all
-the packages, chroots, and set up sudo:
-
- include su_debuild
- include su_debuild::sudo
- class { 'su_debuild::chroots':
- chroots => [ 'sid', 'stretch', 'jessie', 'bionic']
- }
--
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