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Re: vipw and vigr default editor

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On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:00:43PM -0500, John Ratliff wrote:
> I have to do
> 
> sudo EDITOR=vim vipw
> 
> How can I make vim the default editor for vipw/vigr. Or how can I set the
> EDITOR variable when I use sudo automatically?

By default, sudo strips all the useful variables out of your environment.
If you want it to *keep* your environment, you need to change the
/etc/sudoers file (with "sudo EDITOR=whatever visudo").  One way to do
it is:

Defaults        env_reset
Defaults:greg   !env_reset
...

where "greg" is the username who is trusted to set environment vars.

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vipw and vigr default editor John Ratliff <john@bluemarble.net> - 2018-01-05 21:10 +0100
  Re: vipw and vigr default editor Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-05 21:20 +0100
    Re: vipw and vigr default editor Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2018-01-05 21:40 +0100
      Re: vipw and vigr default editor Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-05 21:50 +0100
      Re: vipw and vigr default editor Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-05 21:50 +0100
      Re: vipw and vigr default editor Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-05 21:50 +0100
        Re: vipw and vigr default editor Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2018-01-05 22:00 +0100
  Re: vipw and vigr default editor Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-05 21:30 +0100
    Re: vipw and vigr default editor John Ratliff <john@bluemarble.net> - 2018-01-05 23:10 +0100
  Re: vipw and vigr default editor Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2018-01-06 04:40 +0100

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