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installation, edit sudoers file...

Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:38 pm

in nano saves to:
/etc/sudoers.tmp
Is that correct?
(i don't think so).

ah, damn, btw:
i used the snapshot64, and besides the above it went well, and now i got refracta on a reasonable piece of hardware (no Vbox, no stoneage, but a laptop with a Gig of RAM and a dual-core-whatever-it-has model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100 @ 2.00GHz
).

Re: installation, edit sudoers file...

Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:12 pm

are you using the visudo command?

Oh I guess you are talking about during the install? dunno bout that...simple mode kind of guy here

Re: installation, edit sudoers file...

Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:01 pm

yeah, i mean with the installer. at the end, after all and everyting is rsynced to hd, it asks you if you want to edit the sudoers file.

Re: installation, edit sudoers file...

Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:31 am

Yes, the script uses visudo, and that's correct for it to save it under a different name before it replaces the original.

Re: installation, edit sudoers file...

Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:02 pm

Aha, ok. I never realized that (Well: i never use visudo, and if yes i use it with vim, save with :x, and that does not show you where it saves it, so it is clear why i did never realize).
As a test i set "update-alternatives --config editor", ran visudo, made a change, saved with :w (which only saves, shows you where it saves, but does not close), and had the same result: /etc/sudoers.tmp.
Still a bit strange behaviour, but ok.

Re: installation, edit sudoers file...

Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:17 pm

visudo edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion, analogous to vipw(8).
visudo locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits,
provides basic sanity checks, and checks for parse errors. If the
sudoers file is currently being edited you will receive a message to
try again later.

The lock file used is the specified sudoers file with ".tmp"
appended to it.

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