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visudo, as well as vipassed and vigr use whatever editor is in the 
EDITOR variable...i like nano

in .bash_profile
EDITOR='nano'
export EDITOR

tcsh is slightly different...


On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 05:01 PM, 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.
>
> Hope that helps (at least for the future)
> -dave
>
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