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

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Wed Mar 18 23:17:41 UTC 2020


On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:10:33 +0100, Tom H wrote:
>> $: su -
>> #: EDITOR=joe visudo
>>
>> That will call visudo with the editor set to joe. I do the same, but
>> use nano instead.  
>
>"su -" can be used if "root" has a password.

If not

$ sudo -i

does the job.

However, it should read

# EDITOR=joe vigr

not "visudo" ;).




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