From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Pimentel Subject: Re: 'sudoers' vs. 'hosts-file' Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:52:14 -0300 Message-ID: <1b1c0f64e7aed4c27e377c18a32e9974@openmailbox.org> References: <87h9qaihi1.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4GlP-0005q0-DR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:52:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4GlF-0004fR-Nn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:52:27 -0400 Received: from smtp10.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.44]:42599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4GlF-0004fK-Hi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:52:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h9qaihi1.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=openmailbox.org@gnu.org On 2015-06-14 09:47, Alex Kost wrote: > Hello, > > Since there is no real difference between 'sudoers' and 'hosts-file' > fields (of operating-system declaration), what about renaming one of > them? So it could be either: > > 'sudoers-file' and 'hosts-file' > > or > > 'sudoers' and 'hosts' > > (I prefer the latter variant) Host file is trust relationship (for example host, IP). The sudoers is user/group that can use binary command as root (for example ifconfig, dd and other). -- Daniel Pimentel (d4n1) GnuPG (0B1A1914) FSF (13054)