Sudoers with visudo

[ReM625]

I am trying to modify the Sudoers file on fedora 9. To do this I am trying to use visudo yet I always get the error that visudo can not be found. I was under the assumption that visudo was provided in the sudo package and was wondering where I could obtain it if it was not provided already. Thanks

[axel]

Are you trying to run visudo as root or single user? Anyway, take a look here

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/103/1/#sudo

[scottro]

Also see
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhpath.html

It's possibly the $PATH that you're using.

[pparks1]

Ensure that when you are switching to root that you are using
su - (with the dash).


Without the dash (su) makes you root, but you retain your own user PATH...which likely doesn't include the location of the visudo command. With the dash (su -)...and you become root and have root's profile (thus root's path).

[Kilo]

If you don't want to add the location of visudo to your path, you can just call it with an absolute path. To find it:

# locate visudo

Gives me:

neil@hatzenbach[3] locate visudo                                                                     ~
/usr/sbin/visudo
/usr/share/doc/sudo-1.6.9p4/visudo.pod
/usr/share/man/man8/visudo.8.gz

So then to execute:

# /usr/sbin/visudo

[stevea]

Better yet - learn what "echo $PATH" means.

[Brian1]

Or change default editor to one you know you have. Change to root and run this command before visudo command. If you have nedit then use this example.
export EDITOR=nedit
visudo

Brian