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| author | Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> | 2014-04-03 12:57:29 -0400 |
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| committer | Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> | 2014-04-03 12:58:07 -0400 |
| commit | f5dbbbeedc87c0a3f65ea1e893cc3b8377f68ff5 (patch) | |
| tree | e656f885ad0b1b4704908e2f84c89f50a97ed2ee | |
| parent | e8feeb7dafe07e08fa64032f9e6aeeb73ab6fa98 (diff) | |
clarify that you should not run any commands as a privileged user,
unless it has 'sudo' indicated (#4473)
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/platform/development.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/platform/quick-start.md | 1 |
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diff --git a/docs/platform/development.md b/docs/platform/development.md index 386b703..129404d 100644 --- a/docs/platform/development.md +++ b/docs/platform/development.md @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Requirements * Be a real machine with virtualization support in the CPU (VT-x or AMD-V). In other words, not a virtual machine. * Have at least 4gb of RAM. * Have a fast internet connection (because you will be downloading a lot of big files, like virtual machine images). +* You should do everything described below as an unprivileged user, and only run those commands as root that are noted with *sudo* in front of them. Other than those commands, there is no need for privileged access to your machine, and in fact things may not work correctly. Install prerequisites -------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/platform/quick-start.md b/docs/platform/quick-start.md index 3171674..80a6c46 100644 --- a/docs/platform/quick-start.md +++ b/docs/platform/quick-start.md @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ In order to complete this Quick Start, you will need a few things: * You need to be aware that this process will make changes to your systems, so please be sure that these machines are a basic install with nothing configured or running for other purposes * Your machines will need to be connected to the internet, and not behind a restrictive firewall. * You should work locally on your laptop/workstation (one that you trust and that is ideally full-disk encrypted) while going through this guide. This is important because the provider configurations you are creating contain sensitive data that should not reside on a remote machine. The leap cli utility will login to your servers and configure the services. +* You should do everything described below as an unprivileged user, and only run those commands as root that are noted with *sudo* in front of them. Other than those commands, there is no need for privileged access to your machine, and in fact things may not work correctly. All the commands in this tutorial are run on your sysadmin machine. In order to complete the tutorial, the sysadmin will do the following: |