# Tutorial conventions

In these tutorials we assume that you have a workstation called `laptop.example.com` where you run the root Lisp. We also assume that Consfigurator knows about your laptop, and that it has a host deployment specified, so that you can use `HOSTDEPLOY-THESE` to deploy properties to the laptop as root. For example,:

    (defhost laptop.example.com
        (:deploy ((:sudo :as "spwhitton@laptop.example.com") :sbcl))
      "Sean's laptop."
      (os:debian-stable "bullseye" :amd64))

We suppose that you’ve already set up sources of prerequisite data to provide sudo passwords and the like. See the introduction if you haven’t set this up yet.