From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:48:30 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: update ikiwiki-update-wikilist docs to suggest putting it in /etc/sudoers
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X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/94f826498cde963ab88748a27818b23453e0b94a

update ikiwiki-update-wikilist docs to suggest putting it in /etc/sudoers
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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki-update-wikilist.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki-update-wikilist.mdwn
index e5ea72e36..b6330c5e5 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki-update-wikilist.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki-update-wikilist.mdwn
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ ikiwiki-update-wikilist [-r]
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 
-`ikiwiki-update-wikilist` is designed to be made suid root, but is not installed
-suid by default. If made suid, it allows users to add or remove their names
+`ikiwiki-update-wikilist` is designed to be safely run as root by arbitrary
+users, either by being made suid and using the (now deprecated suidperl), or
+by being configured in `/etc/sudoers` to allow arbitrary users to run.
+
+All it does is allows users to add or remove their names
 from the `/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist` file. 
 
 By default, the user's name will be added.
diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn
index c3b62cd3c..afefd1bc3 100644
--- a/doc/security.mdwn
+++ b/doc/security.mdwn
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ runs ikiwiki to update a given wiki. The wrapper can in turn be made suid,
 for example to be used in a [[post-commit]] hook by people who cannot write
 to the html pages, etc.
 
-If the wrapper script is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
+If the wrapper program is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
 security holes. The wrapper is written as securely as I know how, is based
 on code that has a history of security use long before ikiwiki, and there's
 been no problem yet.
diff --git a/ikiwiki-update-wikilist b/ikiwiki-update-wikilist
index 1976f7ed1..56d6e0731 100755
--- a/ikiwiki-update-wikilist
+++ b/ikiwiki-update-wikilist
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -t
 # Add a user to the system wide wikilist.
-# This script can safely be made suid.
+# This script can safely be made suid or put in /etc/sudoers.
 use warnings;
 use strict;
 use English;