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On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org> wrote:
>
> On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is.... don't chmod
> the file.  VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do
> wq! (w  q then exclamation point or more commonly known as bang) this will
> override the read only aspect and commit your changes without running the
> risk of forgeting to chmod
>
> James
>

which is what I was driving at, but that won't protect against errors
as visudo will also. Visudo is in /sbin on the device. It works fine.

--Paul



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