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

[Don Juan]

On 12/30/2011 01:49 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Don Juan<donjuansjiz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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?
> visudo uses the EDITOR / VISUAL vars, see the man page:
>
> ENVIRONMENT
>         The following environment variables may be consulted depending on the
>         value of the editor and env_editor sudoers variables:
>         VISUAL          Invoked by visudo as the editor to use
>         EDITOR          Used by visudo if VISUAL is not set
>
> See, these variables are used *by visudo*. As you said, sudo is needed
> only for the user, otherwise I get 'visudo: /etc/sudoers: Permission
> denied'.
Thanks I get it now. Sorry for the noise, appreciate your time and 
effort. :)