On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 > > gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > My fav editor, geany is also > > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > > > me. So there is a common problem. > > > > Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work > > directory, copy to/from the real location with a root-powered file > > manager, such as mc under sudo in a terminal. Alter owner/perms as > > required with mc. > > The idea that this is the "right" way kind of horrifies me. 😀 > > Not that I would attempt to suggest that Gene goes this way, but > feature rich editors like vim and emacs can easily write to files > through sudo or sftp, thus enabling seamless editing of files as > different users and even on different hosts.
[ … ] > To me, that is closer to the "right" way to do this sort of thing. > It's really worth spending the time to learn how to do this sort of > thing in one of the advanced editors. I don't recall ever editing a file as root and needing anything beyond the capabilities of nano. What kind of "advanced" editing would one do? (I don't run mc and emacs as root either; their capabilities are too dangerous, in my estimation.) Cheers, David.
