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b.n. wrote: |
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> Michael Hentsch ha scritto: |
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>> The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses |
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>> file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. |
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> This always made me crazy. |
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> Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file? |
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> It's not like we have vixorgconf, vifstab. You are welcome to edit these |
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> files with any editor you like. Why is /etc/sudoers special? |
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Because it needs to be checked for errors before you save it. |
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But visudo uses the editor specified in the EDITOR environment variable |
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(a lot programs do; EDITOR for editing and VISUAL for viewing). In |
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/etc/env.d/99local, I have: |
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EDITOR=kwrite |
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So here, visudo brings up KDE's text editor. |
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