Lunarpages' assortment of hosting products and solutions ensure a perfect fit for anyone looking to get their vision or products to market. Our award winning customer support and 30-day money back guarantee show the pride we take in being the industry's premier MSP.
Solved
unable to edit using visudo Ubuntu 12.04
Posted on 2013-06-17
Hello, I am trying to edit my sudoers file on my Ubuntu machine but I am unable to do this. When I run the command sudo visudo I get a screen as the one shown in my attachment. Once I add a line in the file I am not able to save it. Can someone let me know what I need to do? Thank you.
A
visudo.PNG
A
visudo.PNG
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
3 Comments
What error message do you get when you try to save it?
Press Ctrl and X, it should then prompt to save changes. Once you choose Yes, it should give an error message as to why it cannot save.
Press Ctrl and X, it should then prompt to save changes. Once you choose Yes, it should give an error message as to why it cannot save.
Did you read the comments in the sudoers file (they are in the screenshot you posted):
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
According to that you should create a file in the folder /etc/sudoers.d/ in which you have your changes to the original sudoers file.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
According to that you should create a file in the folder /etc/sudoers.d/ in which you have your changes to the original sudoers file.
Featured Post
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
It is a general practice to get rid of old user profiles on a computer in a LAN environment.
As I have been working with a company in a LAN environment where users move from one place to some other place at times. This will make many user profil…
A quick Powershell script I wrote to find old program installations and check versions of a specific file across the network.
The viewer will learn the basics of jQuery, including how to invoke it on a web page.
Reference your jQuery libraries: (CODE)
Include your new external js/jQuery file: (CODE)
Write your first lines of code to setup your site for jQuery.: (CODE)
In this seventh video of the Xpdf series, we discuss and demonstrate the PDFfonts utility, which lists all the fonts used in a PDF file. It does this via a command line interface, making it suitable for use in programs, scripts, batch files — any pl…
- Document Management
- Document Imaging
- Programming
- Adobe Acrobat
- Scripting Languages
- Printers and Scanners, *Scripts, *batch, *PDF
Suggested Courses
Course of the Month8 days, 7 hours left to enroll
598 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.