yes got it This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. above line is in comments of sudoers file. :) Thanks larry Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Larry Ivan Brower <larry-lists at maxqe.com>wrote: > You should be using visudo for editing the file > > vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi all; > > > >One thing more does there any tool in GNOME which can be used to edit > >sudoers file. > > > >:) > > > >Thanks.. > > > >Regards, > >Vijay Shanker Dubey > >Ph: +91-9818311884 > > > > > >On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:29 PM, vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am planning to edit sudoers files in /etc. > >> > >> when i open this wiht vim command and change some thing it said "this > file > >> is read only" > >> > >> Is this okay to change the status of sudoers files. or any implication? > >> please point > >> > >> Regards, > >> Vijay Shanker Dubey > >> Ph: +91-9818311884 > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091028/8d60b90c/attachment-0005.html>