From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXOqq-0008W1-JC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:50:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34697E01FA; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E136EE01FA for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.89] (37.1.3.89) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 497EEED0024B253B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:50:42 +0100 Message-ID: <499364B6.1050709@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:52:22 +0100 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090110) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers References: <498FD0A1.2080205@spotonlinux.org> In-Reply-To: <498FD0A1.2080205@spotonlinux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b940dd75-2a0e-4f9e-b34a-fe6587dfe257 X-Archives-Hash: 1fd2ca9bf8871356a7696308f8ad2de0 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.