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Document how to use sudo for SU_CMD

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It is rather common for the ports users to replace su(1) with sudo(8)
within the SU_CMD variable. Let's document it in the manual page (so far
it's been hidden in a comment within bsd.commands.mk).

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Mateusz Piotrowski 2020-11-01 17:27:48 +00:00
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 3, 2020
.Dd November 1, 2020
.Dt PORTS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -442,7 +442,10 @@ The unprivileged user must have write access to
and
.Va DISTDIR .
The default is
.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c
.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c .
Many users set it to
.Ql /usr/local/bin/sudo -E sh -c
for convenience.
.It Va PACKAGES
Used only for the
.Cm package