Re: [OFFTOPIC] Editing a file (was: percent char '%' in sudoers file)
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Roger Price wrote:
Young Stefan had fingers so fast
No filename was safe from the blast
When emacs was "e"
It was easy to see
sud(o)ers was not meant to last
This is fabulous. With two you get egg-roll, but with
debian-user you get a...LIMERICK!
Who knew?
THANKS ALL for the spirited response to my sudo brief
psychotic episode.
The package visudo not being installed on this system, su, then
a permission change, permitted me to remove that darned space
between '%' and 'sudo' on that line in /etc/sudoers with good
old jed. After restoring the original permission and exiting su,
I have sudo working as expected in and out of mc.
sudoedit refused even to launch after I began to monkey with
various editors. It is now back at work if I need it.
Excelsior
--
...a society must incorporate the rationalizing
power symbolized by scientific knowledge, for
otherwise it will be a fatally split society-
split between a powerful elite and the
disenfranchised mass. To this we add now: an
irrational elite is the most dangerous of all.
Holton, Gerald. 1985. On the Integrity of
Science: The Issues Since Bronowski. Leonardo
18 (4), Special Issue: Jacob Bronowski: A
Retrospective (1985): 229-232.
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