Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>]

On 10/25/22 9:44 PM, Matt Connell wrote:
> Calm down.

I am calm.

The suggestion to not edit the (/etc/sudoeres) configuration file is one 
of those types of things that if nobody objects to then eventually not 
doing so will become defacto policy.  So I objected, calmly, but with 
emphasis.

> Nobody said you can't.

Yet.  (See above.)

> I do.

I do too.

> Just know what you're doing and pay attention to what portage does 
> with package-managed configuration files.

Yep.

This is a common pitfall across multiple distributions / operating 
systems / platforms.

> dispatch-conf even gives you the opportunity to edit it before 
> applying.

Yep.

I almost always reject the changes suggested on config files that I've 
modified and accept them on files that I've not modified.

I really do wish that there was a better way to manage this, likely 
involving diffs / deltas.  E.g. what changed between the N distribution 
file and the N+1 distribution file.  Can that same change be safely 
applied to the N' distribution file to create the N'+1 file?



-- 
Grant. . . .
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