Configuring Sudo

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Mar 30 19:48:43 UTC 2009


Kushal Das wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Andrew Ross <anross at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rahul,
>>
>> It's annoying to have to do visudo after every install :)
>>
> Btw, why we do need to use visudo than simple vi ?  What is the difference ?
> 
> Kushal
Doesn't visudo handle locking so that two people don't try to edit
the file at once, just like vipw and vigr? also, if you set $EDITOR
or $VISUAL, it will used the specified editor.

Mikkel
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