[juneau-lug] Re: visudo

  • From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:06:31 -0900

Thanks for the confirmation. Much nicer working with sudo.


>Chuck, you're right - all visudo does (and vipw, or vigroup) is lock that file 
>down when it is being edited.  Otherwise it is straight vi.  There are no 
>special vi modules loaded to check or highlight syntax, etc.  Which is too 
>bad, because IMHO that would be very useful.
>
>If you have no reason to suspect that another user on your system might try to 
>take advantage of "insecure" temp files, etc. then you can use any editor to 
>change the config files.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>  
>


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