From: "b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499364B6.1050709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498FD0A1.2080205@spotonlinux.org>
Michael Hentsch ha scritto:
> The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses
> file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors.
This always made me crazy.
Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file?
It's not like we have vixorgconf, vifstab. You are welcome to edit these
files with any editor you like. Why is /etc/sudoers special?
m.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 4:36 [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers Stroller
2009-02-09 6:43 ` Michael Hentsch
2009-02-11 23:52 ` b.n. [this message]
2009-02-11 23:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-12 0:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-02-12 3:55 ` Stroller
2009-02-12 0:01 ` Paul Hartman
2009-02-12 0:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-09 12:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-09 13:05 ` Heiko Wundram
2009-02-09 13:15 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-09 14:20 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-09 14:25 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-10 8:21 ` Heiko Wundram
2009-02-09 17:02 ` Stroller
2009-02-09 18:26 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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