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[Snippet] Setup sudoedit

Éric Massé edited this page Mar 15, 2015 · 1 revision

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When you exit, sudoedit overwrites the original. (sudoedit does not update the real file every time you write changes to the temp file. It waits until you exit your editor.)

sudoedit lets the admin tighten sudoers with a “least privilege” model, while still letting the user choose which editor to use.

sudoedit preserves all your editor customizations, sudo $EDITOR doesn’t.

Manually set favorite editor

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs

export EDITOR=/bin/nano

Automatically set favorite editor

~/.bashrc

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

EDITOR=/bin/nano