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I work with a software product that has over 10 major components. The administration of most of these is done with the root user with one notable exception where they use a less privileged user for...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:04:55Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Lefty G Balogh
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2019-12-08T08:04:55Z (over 4 years ago)
I work with a software product that has over 10 major components. The administration of most of these is done with the root user with one notable exception where they use a less privileged user for such purposes. In most places, the instructions specify the user, and may even include instructions such as:
su - lessPrivilegedUser
clustercommand --resursive --restart
However, yesternight I bumped into a set of commands that stop and start a service where the instructions did not include this information. Neither did the section one level up. So I requested the documentation team to make amends. To my great surprise, they responded with the result list of a search saying that the documentation already has this in 28 different places, asking me to confirm whether I am certain I want it included for the 29th time.
Q: Should the user be specified for each administration task in an administration guide?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-01-30T14:45:38Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 9