Thanks Shawn. Sorry to go offlist. So, I'm trying to do some initial testing. I'm on a MacBook with OpenBSD in a VM. All I want to do is run my compiler over some source files.
MacBooks have a funky keyboard, and when I try to use visudo to move the cursor around, some of the arrow keys don't work. Not to mention the DELETE key (or the key combinations I know to use to simulate delete). visudo responds with ^? is not valid. I'm sure I'll have that file corrupted shortly. I really don't get why this shit is so f**k'ing difficult. How is running around with a root terminal open more secure than exec'ing one command under sudo??? Thanks for the advice. Jeff On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013, at 06:47 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: >> 2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>: >> >> man visudo >> > I don't know vi. I do known emacs, but its not on this system so I >> >> Then learn it. This is unix. >> You really should use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers, not an editor. > > Note that you can configure visudo, vipw, and vigr to use an editor > besides vi. It's possible to get by on Unix without knowing vi, I did so > on GNU/Linux systems for most of 4 years, but I finally broke down and > figured it out and promptly realized it wasn't as hard as it had been > made out to be. > > -- > Shawn K. Quinn > skqu...@rushpost.com
