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Re: Configuring Sudo

From: Andrew Ross <anross redhat com>
To: For participants of the Documentation Project <fedora-docs-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Configuring Sudo
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:54:38 +1000

Hi Kushal,

Btw, why we do need to use visudo than simple vi ?  What is the difference ?

Kushal


By default /etc/sudoers is read only.

visudo lets you edit and save. vi the same file and you have to force save.

/me guesses its just added security....

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