Bug 937

Summary:	visudo tries to use vi even though editor is set to nano
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	esgwpl
Component:	Visudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low
Version:	1.9.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description esgwpl 2020-08-02 20:35:57 MDT

visudo tries to use vi (which is not installed on my system) even though editor is set in sudoers to /usr/bin/nano, weirdly enough it only does this if I pass -f /path/to/alternate/sudoers, it correctly uses nano whenever I want to edit the default /etc/sudoers file. I have these two lines added to my sudoers file:

Defaults      env_reset
Defaults      editor=/usr/bin/nano, !env_editor

Comment 1 esgwpl 2020-08-03 02:42:48 MDT

Never mind this, I should've read the manual more carefully, sorry for the noise.