<quote who="Jeffrey Butera"> > On Friday 13 January 2006 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I believe the visudo command is for SELinux versions so if SELinux isn't >> install on the RH box, if that's what it is, then you don't have to >> worry >> about it. > > Not true. visudo has been on every box I've ever used (RedHat, Fedora, > Solaris...) and it's the proper way to edit the sudoers file. That's why > it > states: > > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
I've never seen that in the files I've edited. I don't edit it much and have probably just gotten used to looking past most of the # lines. But, learn something new every day. I've never had a problem, however, with the manual editing of the file. It's always worked. Karl (not a Ph.D., obviously) > > visudo may not be found because of path issues - it's usually in > /usr/sbin, > /sbin or /usr/local/sbin. > -- > Jeff Butera, Ph.D. > Administrative Systems > Hampshire College > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 413-559-5556 > > "We make moral decisions everyday even if we don't know it." > Scott Simon (NPR) on the death of 20,000 coal miners annually in China. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- IT Director, ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. http://www.atsindustrial.com Toll-free: 800-789-9300 x29 Direct2Desk: 801-978-4429 Facsimile: 801-972-3888 -- ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
