Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue Mar 3 02:01:22 UTC 2009


David Ward wrote:
> I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie).  I try to edit
> .conf files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have
> permission.

Use sudoedit.  You can configure it to use the editor of your choice
(set the environment variables EDITOR and VISUAL).

Matt Flaschen




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