sudo configuration help

Kihara Muriithi william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 6 12:59:32 UTC 2007


Petersen,

Thanks a lot for highlighting this. I am also unfortunately using RH
and can't take advantage of that feature. Its however on fedora6 so it
should be possible to use it in future

Regards,
William

On 05/06/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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