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On 2018-04-20 00:11, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> How loose are we with saying things like, "you should run this as root"
> in the docs?
> 
> I was triaging this nova bug [1] which is saying that the docs should
> tell you to run nova-status (which implies also nova-manage) as root,
> but isn't running admin-level CLIs implied that you need root, or
> something with access to those commands (sudo)?
> 
> I'm not sure how prescriptive we should be with stuff like this in the
> docs because if we did start saying this, I feel like we'd have to say
> it everywhere.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1764530

We use in openstack-manuals "# root-command" and "$ non-root command", see:
https://docs.openstack.org/install-guide/common/conventions.html

so, just add the "#" for thse.

But looking at
https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/doc/source/install/verify.rst#n103,
it is there - so, closed invalid IMHO,

Andreas
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