visudo and other editors [Was: add users to sudo file]

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Daniel Robitaille">

> > ...or 'sudo <any text editor> /etc/sudoers' will work.
> 
> the advantage of "visudo" instead of "any text editor" is that visudo will
> do, before you save the file, some sanity checks and make sure you don't
> have any syntax errors in your sudoers file.

You can use other editors while still being protected from screwups by
visudo... Like this:

  EDITOR=nano visudo

[ Note that I do not endorse the use of nano at all! ;-) ]

- Jeff

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