Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread b.n.
Michael Hentsch ha scritto: The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. This always made me crazy. Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file? It's not like we have

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:52:22 +0100, b.n. wrote: The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. This always made me crazy. Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, b.n. brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Hentsch ha scritto: The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. This always made me crazy. Why, why, why should I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:01:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I guess an error in sudoers could allow the whole world to use sudo, and someone decided to give this special cushion to this program and none of the others that can also ruin your system in various other ways. :) You could also lock

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Stroller
On 12 Feb 2009, at 00:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... there's nothing to stop you using any editor you like, directly, and it's the best choice if you want to be free to screw up the file. It's the Unix way! Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm just in the process of setting up my lovely new system :D, in the very first post-install steps. I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Anyway, as root I started to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Hentsch
Stroller schrieb: Hi there, I'm just in the process of setting up my lovely new system :D, in the very first post-install steps. I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Anyway, as root I