On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:22:23PM +0100, lee wrote: > > Or better, set VISUAL=emacs and run `sudo -e`, which was designed for > > this purpose. (And which, by the way, will work out of the box on Fedora > > for members of the wheel group.) > In which way is that better?
Because emacs isn't actually executed as root. The editor is executed under your user id, operating on a temporary file, which is then copied into place. It's impossible for the editor (or the person using it) to do anything as root other than edit the specified file. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mat...@fedoraproject.org> -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
