[PLUG] documented sudo?

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Apr 11 21:19:27 UTC 2016


I'm transitioning machines to a RHEL 7.x derived distro
from prehistoric RHEL 5.x.  I am encountering selinux,
firewalld, systemd, and other command-line configured
tools, which produce many little disconnected XML files,
rather than the /etc configuration files I am used to. 

I put lots of comments with observations, intent, hints,
helpful webpages, and other useful information in my
config files, and use those comments to get up to speed
years later, when I repair or upgrade those files. 
This is difficult to do with the *d command-line tools.  

I would expect there would be something like a "dodo"
command, pronounced "dew-dew" (*) and is short for
"documented do".  This gives the user an opportunity to
add documentation to every sudo, timed and in context with
every other dodo, per subsystem and in sequence.  Syntax
errors would be treated separately, corrections aided.

This seems like an obvious help tool for sysadmin using
the new config-file-free tools, so it probably exists. 
What is it called?  If it does not, would someone
please earn fame and fortune by writing it?

Keith

(*) dodo pronounced "dew-dew" indicates cognoscenti
who've got their s**t together.  Pronounced "doe-doe",
like the extinct flightless bird, indicates a clueless
newbie.  I hope this is an additional incentive to
snarky tool writers to write this for me.

-- 
Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com



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