I've lost sudo access and I don't really understand why

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:32:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:32:24 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>Once sorted then create another spare user so you can more easily get
>>out of this sort of hole.  
>
>I enable the root account for all of my Linux, that's a quite good
>"spare user". FWIW that some distros by default disable/d the root
>account was never done for security reasons, this is just an urban
>myth.
>
>On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:00:19 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 21:56, David Fletcher wrote:  
>>> Never been able to understand what is wrong with simply using a text
>>> editor (I use joe) on /etc/group ?  
>
>When using joe, than use it via vigr.
>
>$ apropos vigr 
>vigr (8)             - edit the password or group file
>$ echo $EDITOR
>nano
>
>Arch Linux and Ubuntu use a different sudo. I need to test how it works
>for my Ubuntu install regarding the EDITOR variable.
>
>On Arch Linux running
>
>$ sudo visudo
   ^^^^^^^^^^^
   ^^^^^^^^^^^ This should read "sudo vigr".



>ignores the EDITOR variable, IOW I get vi.
>
>If I run
>
>$ sudo -i
>
>or
>
>$ su
>
>and then
>
># vigr
>
>I get the desired editor set by the EDITOR variable, so for me it's
>nano.
>
>If I run
>
># EDITOR=xed vigr
>
>I get xed, IOW it also works with GUI editors.