vi and sudo

Thomas Robinson tom.robinson at ehbas.com
Wed Apr 24 04:05:53 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.
> 

This is infact what we ended up doing. Quite often when you look at the
context you don't need to do what it is you thought you had to.

Tom.


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