Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Björn Lindström wrote:

>Saverio Trioni <saverio.trioni@gmail.com> writes:
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>>you have to edit the file /etc/sudoers with the command 'visudo', for
>>security reasons. For this, you have to get used to the editor 'vi'.
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>In fact you don't. I, for instance, make it use nano, by setting the
>EDITOR environment variable to 'nano'.
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I believe that "visudo" simply locks the file so that others can't edit
it at the same time you're editing it. You can also set a different
editor to be used with the command. See "man sudo" for more info.

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