Thanks Jeff, Sounds good. Do you think this thread is effectively solved, then? You might consider opening a bug report for visudo.
- John > On Jun 17, 2019, at 11:02 AM, Jeff Bauer <jeffru...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:03:20AM -0700, John Soo wrote: >> Sorry this is so confusing. Let me know if I’m missed something since >> I’ve been half-following this thread. I think what you may want to do >> is use the sudoers-file field when specifying your operating system >> rather than using visudo to edit the file. This way you will have >> persistent and declarative specification for the sudoers file. The >> sudoers-file field allows you to place an arbitrary file-like object in >> it, so you can put whatever you want to add using visudo there and it >> will work the same. Check the manual for >> reference: [1]https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/ope >> rating_002dsystem-Reference.html#operating_002dsystem-Reference > > John, > > Correct, I got my local sudoers working a few > days ago, so there's no longer any confusion on > my end (but thanks for your reply). > > However, guix's visudo should probably be patched > to allow editing of a *local* ~/etc/sudoers file, > which currently won't work because /usr/bin/vi > appears to be hard-coded. > > -Jeff
