On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:44:16 Paul Klapperich wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Paul, All I can say on the protection is... you greatly underestimate me.... *grin* as for visudo nope on my Nokia but that's ok. Seriously though you can make just as high quality mistakes with visudo as you can using vi and ! to override. Which is IMHO one more good reason to set your root password. Then if you crunch /etc/sudoers you can su to root and correct the error. James James
