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[bug#34005] [PATCH] system: Add sudoedit to %setuid-programs.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#34005] [PATCH] system: Add sudoedit to %setuid-programs. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:41:20 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Meiyo,
Meiyo Peng <address@hidden> skribis:
> This patch adds sudoedit to %setuid-programs. Although sudoedit is
> equivalent to "sudo -e" and sudo is already in %setuid-programs, I
> prefer to type sudoedit in terminal. sudoedit is a common command in
> Linux distros. I use it frequently. It would be great if guix users
> are not forced to fallback on "sudo -e".
The problem I see is that on GuixSD /etc/sudoers is not supposed to be
edited directly. Instead, users are expected to specify ‘sudoers-file’
in their OS config, which generates a read-only /etc/sudoers.
Whatever changes you make manually to that file are lost upon reboot or
reconfiguration.
Thus I feel like we should discourage ‘sudo -e’, ’sudoedit’, and
‘visudo’ altogether.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.