Bug 937 – visudo tries to use vi even though editor is set to nano

Bug 937 - visudo tries to use vi even though editor is set to nano


Summary:	visudo tries to use vi even though editor is set to nano

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Visudo
Version:	1.9.2
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	low normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2020-08-02 20:35 MDT by esgwpl
Modified:	2020-08-03 02:43 MDT (History)
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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.