On 16/05/07, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 15/05/07, Ben Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you'll be able to edit
> sudoers
Using visudo, one presumes.
Well, I guess the problem in the first place was that the installer
didn't try to use visudo to make its changes, and just blatted a line
straight in there.
visudo not only swaps out into a temporary file for editing (like many
other config-file-specific editors), but it does a sanity check on
syntax before swapping it back in again - which in theory would have
caught the original fault.
In the case of doing a manual recovery of the sudoers file, using
visudo will help you be sure that the file is valid (even if it
doesn't do what you want, though); and this will save time in case you
have to go back to the liveCD in order to try fixing your fix ... :-)
-jim
