diff --git a/docs/design/dann-deployment-threat-model.md b/docs/design/dann-deployment-threat-model.md
index 7397db7ae..d4f65052e 100644
--- a/docs/design/dann-deployment-threat-model.md
+++ b/docs/design/dann-deployment-threat-model.md
@@ -29,13 +29,14 @@ operator-managed end to end:
 - The audit ledger is service-owned, and root can re-chain it from genesis (the
   chain has no external anchor), so **audit is not tamper-evident against the
   operator.**
-- sudoers applies tags last-match-wins, so the `SETENV` tag on the wheel rule
-  (`%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: ALL`) wins for the operator regardless
-  of the module's own NOPASSWD grant lines (which carry no `SETENV` tag). The
-  real route is `sudo -u <svc> env VAR=… $BROKER …`, which reaches the broker
-  with caller-chosen variables that `purge_ambient_env` does not cover. This is
-  moot while the operator is root — which is the point — and it is a reason
-  never to deploy this pattern on a host where the operator is *not* already
+- sudoers applies tags last-match-wins. For the broker command itself the
+  module's line matches last and carries no `SETENV`, so a `sudo VAR=… -u <svc>
+  $BROKER …` is refused; the wheel rule's `SETENV`
+  (`%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: ALL`) still covers the `env` form,
+  `sudo -u <svc> env VAR=… $BROKER …`, which reaches the broker with
+  caller-chosen variables that `purge_ambient_env` does not cover. This is moot
+  while the operator is root — which is the point — and it is a reason never to
+  deploy this pattern on a host where the operator is *not* already
   root-equivalent.
 
 So on dann, sudo-secretspec provides exactly two things, and it is worth naming
diff --git a/nix/module.nix b/nix/module.nix
index 233977af6..722ed5d86 100644
--- a/nix/module.nix
+++ b/nix/module.nix
@@ -229,19 +229,19 @@ in
     # The whole policy — the `Defaults!` line *and* the operator's NOPASSWD
     # grant lines — comes from `sudoersText`, the IFD derivation that runs the
     # binary's own `print-sudoers`. `security.sudo.extraConfig` is
-    # `types.lines`, merged by plain `concatStringsSep "\n"` with no
-    # `sortProperties` pass, so `mkOrder`/`mkAfter` carry no weight here; what
-    # actually orders it is nixpkgs' `sudo.nix`, which appends `extraConfig`
-    # LAST — after the stock `%wheel` `extraRules` block. sudoers is
-    # last-match-wins, so these grants are the final lines and take effect over
-    # `%wheel`'s password prompt. The only residual is ordering against a
-    # *second* module that also sets `extraConfig`: nixpkgs emits both in the
-    # order its `concatStringsSep` sees them, and whichever lands later wins.
-    # That is an availability-only risk (a later rule could re-prompt for a
-    # verb), never an escalation — it cannot add a grant this module did not
-    # already emit. There is no `timestamp_timeout=0` line and no `doctor` grant
-    # on Linux: the former has no client path to attach to, the latter refuses
-    # on Linux.
-    security.sudo.extraConfig = builtins.readFile sudoersText;
+    # `types.lines`; `lib.mkAfter` sorts this definition after other modules'
+    # `extraConfig` lines (nixpkgs runs `sortProperties` whenever any
+    # definition carries `_type == "order"`, before the type's merge), and
+    # nixpkgs' `sudo.nix` appends `extraConfig` LAST — after the stock `%wheel`
+    # `extraRules` block. sudoers is last-match-wins, so these grants are the
+    # final lines and take effect over `%wheel`'s password prompt. The only
+    # residual is ordering against a *second* module that also sets
+    # `extraConfig` with `mkAfter` (or a later `mkOrder`): whichever sorts
+    # later wins. That is an availability-only risk (a later rule could
+    # re-prompt for a verb), never an escalation — it cannot add a grant this
+    # module did not already emit. There is no `timestamp_timeout=0` line and
+    # no `doctor` grant on Linux: the former has no client path to attach to,
+    # the latter refuses on Linux.
+    security.sudo.extraConfig = lib.mkAfter (builtins.readFile sudoersText);
   };
 }