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[BUG] - running on a fresh install of Alpine fails for sudo permissions

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start by locating the Alpine setup and the command that currently requires sudo, then inspect how permissions are handled on a fresh install. Use the reported paths, /etc/apk/repositories and /etc/sudoers, as context while reproducing the failure. Done means the project runs on a fresh Alpine install without manually enabling repositories, installing sudo, or editing sudoers.

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Description

bug
Expected Behavior

Should run on a fresh install of Alpine

Actual Behavior

Throws an error on a fresh install due to sudo not found.

need to su into root to:

  1. uncomment the community repo in /etc/apk/repositories
  2. apk add sudo
  3. add user to /etc/sudoers
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