On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 17:53 -0500, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: > ~ $ sudo EDITOR=nano visudo Since you can't use sudo, as long as it isn't set, the best way is to go with the Wiki: "The command is run as root: # EDITOR="nano" visudo" https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo ;) OT: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 17:21 -0500, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: use of visudo is only critical for systems where no > one knows the root password (default Ubuntu for example). $ sudo passwd root ;) Cheers! Ralf