root password?

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Feb 3 12:29:25 UTC 2008


I just set env variable to say joe, with export EDITOR=joe. I need to 
test it :-)

Karl



Binish A.R wrote:
> The choice of editor depends on the env variable EDITOR.
> Set the env variable to say vi, export EDITOR=vi
> and visudo would open the file in vi instead of nano ;)
>
> --- On *Sun, 2/3/08, Peter Garrett /<peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>/* wrote:
>
>
>      By default on Ubuntu, visudo uses the "nano"
>     editor, which is not exactly what you'd expect ;) 
>
>   


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