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Re: vipw and vigr default editor



On Fri 05 Jan 2018 at 21:37:16 +0100, Ulf Volmer wrote:

> On 05.01.2018 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:00:43PM -0500, John Ratliff wrote:
> 
> >> sudo EDITOR=vim vipw
> 
> > Defaults        env_reset
> > Defaults:greg   !env_reset
> 
> That basically keeps the *whole* environment, what is usually a security
> issue. Better solution is to keep only needed and proved environment
> variables using
> 
> Defaults  env_keep += "EDITOR"

This is all very incredibly useful. Roberto C. Sánchez has the answer
though.

-- 
Brian.


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