[PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

Tim tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org
Mon Mar 19 17:18:27 UTC 2012


> > Then commands like visudo, vipw, svn commit, ... (list goes on) ... will
> > use that editor by default.
> 
>    According to the sudo man page, visudo does not honor the EDITOR or VISUAL
> environments from .bash_profile or .bashrc. It needs to be set explicitly as
> the first line of /etc/sudoers.

Works for me.  I use zile, which is hardly a popular editor.

Looking at my man page, it says it honors that environment variable if
the editor is in a predefined list.  Maybe Debian has a predefined
list based on installed editors.  Not sure.

tim



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