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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> 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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I guess an error in sudoers could allow the whole world to use sudo, |
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and someone decided to give this special cushion to this program and |
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none of the others that can also ruin your system in various other |
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ways. :) |
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Paul |
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