<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Bill Meek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com" target="_blank">keemllib@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Whenever I work with sudoers, I keep an extra open terminal *already*<br>
running sudo -s, just in case a typo/braino trashes the ability to<br>
use sudo.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br></blockquote></div><br>Bill, note that the visudo command can help with that--it does some basic syntax parsing sanity checks and also locks the file against simultaneous editing. It's probably included with the sudo package (at least it is on Gentoo). And no, you don't HAVE to use vi for editing (if you don't want).<br>
<br>Karl<br>