From d1e4aa76a70e837bfe217652bc94b909a9a1e1d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yunque Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:25:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Grammatical clarification and stylistic uniformity Made more legible by removing unnecessary punctuation, formatting special words (e.g. `sudo`), and a few other minor grammatical changes. --- docsite/rst/become.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/become.rst b/docsite/rst/become.rst index 7c5c47f3d52..e1cae2fc1ba 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/become.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/become.rst @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Ansible can use existing privilege escalation systems to allow a user to execute Become `````` -Ansible allows you 'become' another user, different from the user that logged into the machine (remote user). This is done using existing -privilege escalation tools, which you probably already use or have configured, like 'sudo', 'su', 'pfexec', 'doas', 'pbrun', 'dzdo', and others. +Ansible allows you to 'become' another user, different from the user that logged into the machine (remote user). This is done using existing +privilege escalation tools, which you probably already use or have configured, like `sudo`, `su`, `pfexec`, `doas`, `pbrun`, `dzdo`, and others. .. note:: Before 1.9 Ansible mostly allowed the use of `sudo` and a limited use of `su` to allow a login/remote user to become a different user @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ become set to 'true'/'yes' to activate privilege escalation. become_user - set to user with desired privileges, the user you 'become', NOT the user you login as. Does NOT imply `become: yes`, to allow it to be set at host level. + set to user with desired privileges — the user you 'become', NOT the user you login as. Does NOT imply `become: yes`, to allow it to be set at host level. become_method - at play or task level overrides the default method set in ansible.cfg, set to 'sudo'/'su'/'pbrun'/'pfexec'/'doas'/'dzdo' + (at play or task level) overrides the default method set in ansible.cfg, set to `sudo`/`su`/`pbrun`/`pfexec`/`doas`/`dzdo` For example, to manage a system service (which requires ``root`` privileges) when connected as a non-``root`` user (this takes advantage of the fact that the default value of ``become_user`` is ``root``)::