From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Larsson Subject: Re: editing /etc/sudoers Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:16:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20190614131600.Horde.M0Laiu8gBLMcwnYgaPXAbIq@cloud.selfhosted.xyz> References: <20190614115539.GA22815@serpent> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbmCz-0006mq-Q5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:25:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbmCy-0003xm-KK for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:25:33 -0400 Received: from 217-64-149-7.pool.ovpn.com ([217.64.149.7]:56620 helo=server0.selfhosted.xyz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbmCx-0003rP-Pr for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:25:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20190614115539.GA22815@serpent> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org, Jeff Bauer Hi Jeff, This is probably not the guix way, but Im usually using SUDO_EDITOR=3Dzil= e visudo instead of just EDITOR. B.R. David Jeff Bauer =E2=80=93 Fri, 14. June 2019 14:36 > I've been trying unsuccessfully to make changes to > /etc/sudoers. I used visudo by creating a symlink > to /usr/bin/vi (because visudo ignores EDITOR), but > the changes aren't permanent. What am I missing? >=20 > -Jeff