vi and sudo

Brent Fortman Brent.Fortman at radioshack.com
Tue Apr 23 09:03:12 EDT 2002


> "while acting in the sudo context"

You may think sudo is doing more than it is designed to do.  When you "sudo
vi" you are simply running vi as root. There is no "sudo context" once vi
begins to execute. Given that, it is a common practice amongst sudo
administrators to find other alternatives or exclude altogether the use of
vi with sudo.

Brent

-----Original Message-----
From: G Saoutine [mailto:gsaoutine at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:21 PM
To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: vi and sudo


dear list,

i am new to sudo and recently installed it on sun
solaris 2.6. when i open vi while acting in the sudo
context, vi still seems lets me execute shell commands
as root.

did i miss something in configuration? or what am i
doing wrong?

thanks,
greg

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