Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > sudoedit is running as root there, but it is not itself an editor. > > You can verify for yourself that the editor runs under the unprivileged > account. Here is an example of using sudoedit to fire up Geany: > > $ EDITOR=geany sudoedit /etc/group & > > $ ps -p $(pgrep -d , 'sudoedit|geany') -o user,pid,ppid,args > USER PID PPID COMMAND > root 221381 221316 sudoedit /etc/group > lars 221382 221381 geany /var/tmp/group.XXm6gNkW > > As you see, sudoedit is a wrapper which supervises the editor and a > temporary file. > I see. Was confused not seeing "vi" in process list, only sudoedit. Turns out, it was running as /usr/bin/editor (as local user, not root). Thanks for your explanation and patience :-)
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