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From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:39:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430E64B6.80004@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430E3ABB.4060606@interlynx.net>

C.Beamer wrote:
> 
<snip>
> You also need to install vim because you have to edit the /etc/sudoers
> file in order to add a user name. If you display the sudoers file ('cat
> sudoers') it will tell you that the file *must* be edited by the visudo
> command as root.
> 
You do not need to install vim.  sudo installs visudo but, at least in
my case, visudo uses nano which is my default editor.

Tony
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-25 18:40 [gentoo-user] sudo John Dangler
2005-08-25 19:11 ` Jonathan Wright
2005-08-25 21:14   ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 21:34     ` Jonathan Wright
2005-08-25 19:19 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-25 21:40 ` C.Beamer
2005-08-25 22:13   ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-25 23:17     ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 23:40       ` Jonathan Wright
2005-08-26  0:39   ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2005-08-26 17:44   ` Antoine
2005-08-25 23:25 ` Kurt Lieber
2005-08-25 23:47   ` John Dangler
2005-08-26  1:48     ` Nick Rout

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