sudo configuration help

Neil Watson tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 5 17:06:27 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Ian Petersen wrote:
>My sudo package includes a -e option, which can be invoked as either
>sudo -e or sudoedit that claims to do exactly what you want--allow a
>non-root user to safely edit files.

Thanks for the tip.  I sadly note that Red Hat 3 and 4 both do not have
this while the supposedly conservative Debian does.

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