From the visudo man page: visudo locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits, provides basic sanity checks, and checks for parse errors. If the sudoers file is currently being …

Mar 15, 2013 · ## Sudoers allows particular users to run various commands as ## the root user, without needing the root password. ## ## Examples are provided at the bottom of the file for …

Adding Defaults editor=/path/to/editor in the sudoers file will cause visudo to use the specified editor for changes. Additionally, if your sudo package has been built with --with-env-editor, as …

Always use visudo to edit that file. To choose the editor that visudo runs, set the VISUAL environment variable (or EDITOR, as long as VISUAL is unset). On a multiuser machine, …

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Feb 10, 2019 · visudo is a command provided for editing the sudoers file in a safe way. To quote its manual page: visudo edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion, analogous to vipw(8). visudo …

Feb 14, 2015 · to address the insecure aspect, you could create the script file (create_dir.sh) in /root/bin for instance, default ownership should be root:root; even adjust permissions to chmod …

Jul 27, 2017 · sudo visudo is to modify the default configuration file directly, but in the file has suggestion below. Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of directly …

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Jul 18, 2023 · In all likelihood one of these commands popped up first and then the others were created as the first would already have some semantics and forcing those on others wouldn't …