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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Show Dont <byboating@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers'  still report Buffer is read-only: #<buffer sudoers> in modeline
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429103359.GA14078@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <819c0a76-13fb-4d38-baa3-8ca429e8cf31@googlegroups.com>

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:27:36PM -0700, Show Dont wrote:
> I want to edit /etc/sudoers for add 'git ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' in it. I am ready the root user, but emacs still can not edit the /etc/sudoers. 

Note: as Bob and Alex already pointed out, visudo is the right way
to do that. Not only it manages the read-only thingie, but it does
sanity checks on the sudoers file: if you've managed to shut yourself
out of root because of a silly typo in the sudoers file, you'll learn
to appreciate that feature :-)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29  6:27 I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers' still report Buffer is read-only: #<buffer sudoers> in modeline Show Dont
2015-04-29  8:25 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-29  8:36 ` tomas
2015-04-29  9:24 ` Alex Kost
2015-04-29 10:33 ` tomas [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1889.1430298251.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-29 20:08   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-29 20:29     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-30 21:36       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2062.1430429791.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-01  1:23         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-01  2:31         ` Emanuel Berg

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