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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.



  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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