You are supposed to run sudoedit.
This command creates a temporary copy, opens it in you editor of choice and overwrites the protected file when the temp file changes.
That way the editor doesn’t run as root.
You can see the difference if you run shell command, like whoami, in vim.
You are supposed to run
sudoedit.This command creates a temporary copy, opens it in you editor of choice and overwrites the protected file when the temp file changes.
That way the editor doesn’t run as root.
You can see the difference if you run shell command, like
whoami, in vim.Ah, thanks for clarifying. I hadn’t heard of sudoedit before but that makes a lot of sense.