On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:42:14AM -0000, Pascal wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <pfrederick1@...> wrote:
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> > I didn't know you could edit the sudoers with a plain text editor. I thought that was what visudo was for?
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> Isn't that what visudo actually does? Open the sudoers-file with vi?
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It opens the sudoers file with the default editor. For example, I
believe that on Ubuntu, it will open the sudoers file with nano.
The other thing it does is check for syntax errors. That is, if you
make a syntax error while editing, it will warn you.
You can edit the sudoers file with any text editor, visudo is just a bit
of an additional safeguard.
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