visudo enhancement to edit-syntax-check arbitrary files

[William R. Ward]

Todd C. Miller writes:
>visudo in sudo 1.6.4 will have a -f flag to operate on arbitrary
>files and a -c flag to just check a file.
>
>The changes are in the sudo cvs tree as of a few days ago.

My understanding is that visudo requires you to already be root.  I
think that it is important to have the editor *not* run as uid 0 due
to the fact that you can launch sub-processes, edit other files, etc.
See the CAVEATS section in the man page for visudo.

Also, what mechanism is there to specify what the file syntax should
be?

--Bill.

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