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On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 05:01 , David Bacher wrote: > At 6:48 AM -0700 5/3/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've gone and broken my sudoers file, and can't sudo now. I opened it >> in BBedit to add the line: >> <my username> ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL >> but it now comes up with the message "sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode >> 0640, should be 0440" >> Any idea what to do? > > Dan, > Other people have responded with how to repair your system: su, chmod > 0440 ... > > But I wanted to mention visudo (/usr/sbin/visudo). It exists to catch > errors like yours before they end up breaking the system. It requires > learning a little bit of how to edit with vi, but I'd argue that that's > good knowledge to have if you're going to be mucking with things as > root. > visudo honors $EDITOR or $VISUAL (I have both set to vim, so I'm not certain), so if you want to use another bsd level editor you can. In bash/sh/zsh/ksh, add the following to your .profile (bash & sh, and probably zsh/ksh) EDITOR=/sw/bin/vim VISUAL=/sw/bin/vim export EDITOR VISUAL In tcsh, add the following to your .cshrc setenv EDITOR /sw/bin/vim I don't use tcsh, so this part may be wrong. jpb - -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. - James Madison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE80907yEXo8W2M9hsRAh6jAJ0SmqiaybsyvYDTAo+3jjLDGaVtKQCgqyH+ xu8ATnmDmx97zFrLQeJDE1o= =aQFz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
