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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago

You shouldn't really use editor with sudo, but instead use sudoedit to edit files restricted to root user

SUDO_EDITOR=nano sudoedit /etc/fstab

This accomplishes the same function while running the text editor as unprivileged user

[-] doctorn@r.nf 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why?

Files from user: nano

Files from root: sudo nano

Files from another user: sudo nano (and if new sudo chown after)... ๐Ÿ˜‚

Never had any problems with this in over 10 years... ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

Doing sudo nano will not load your user configuration, sudoedit will. I had plenty of problems with this, but I assume you don't have any custom configuration.

[-] samuelc@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One reason why sometime I don't do sudoedit is that I make a lot of changes to the config/restart service/see it works/edit etc.. sudoedit only write to the file when exiting, so that flow won't work...

for example when having adding a new host on nginx and some configuration and see if everything work (sudo vim/systemc nginx restart/curl https:// domain loop)

but yeah in general i'll just use sudoedit (which alias to se for me) for my root editing

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