>>> On 8/4/2013 at 12:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > I was lately shocked and dismayed to discover on a certain Linux > system that "visudo" dropped me into not "vi", but "nano". I > can't even figure out where that's configured; perhaps it's > compiled in. How could they!?
According to the man page: The following environment variables may be consulted depending on the value of the editor and env_editor sudoers settings: VISUAL Invoked by visudo as the editor to use EDITOR Used by visudo if VISUAL is not set Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
