I've lost sudo access and I don't really understand why

[Wynona Stacy Lockwood]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 17:00 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 21:56, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Never been able to understand what is wrong with simply using a text
> > editor (I use joe) on /etc/group ?
>
> You can't if you have lost sudo access.
>
> Colin
>


A: Security

B:  You can:

  $: su -
  #: EDITOR=joe visudo

That will call visudo with the editor set to joe. I do the same, but use
nano instead.
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