[arch-general] Question about visudo and info in the Wiki

[Don Juan]

On 12/30/2011 01:18 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Don Juan<donjuansjiz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> but even as root user I can do it, so wouldn't it not do it under root since
>> sudo is not involved?
> Not sure what you mean here.
>
> Have you tried restricting the use of EDITOR w/o recompiling sudo:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Using_visudo
>
> # Defaults specification
> # Reset environment by default
> Defaults      env_reset
> # Set default EDITOR to vim, and do not allow visudo to use EDITOR/VISUAL.
> Defaults      editor=/usr/bin/vim, !env_editor
I just meant if I log in as root I can run the envvar. Its not issue to 
me I am just the type to try what things say its not able to do. So I 
first tried as a normal user, hence the need for sudo, I understand why 
sudo and running the command works (thanks to your link). But if you are 
USER root you don't need to run sudo, so hence wouldn't running 
EDITOR=nano visudo not work if you are a root user, since sudo is not 
involved?