sudoers

[Tamas Papp]

On 05/16/2014 03:50 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote:
>> On May 16, 2014, at 4:23, Tamas Papp <tompos at martos.bme.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
>>> Actually, you are supposed to create a new file in /etc/sudoers.d for
>>> custom rules. You shouldn't edit /etc/sudoers directly; this will
>>> ensure that package upgrades can happen without asking you any
>>> question about the changes you made to that file.
>> If you edit sudoers via visudo there is a syntax checking.
>> If you do something wrong in /etc/sudoers.d/a, there is no syntax
>> checking and the your user gets locked out:
>>
>> $ sudo -i
>>>>> /etc/sudoers.d/a: syntax error near line 1 <<<
>> sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/a near line 1
>> sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
>> sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
> Ugh? Then use visudo to change sudoers so you learn the proper syntax and copy/paste to /etc/sudoers.d/a. After doing one file you should be able to remember the syntax ...

Yes, there are _workarounds_ to make visudo pointless.

tamas