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Calimari

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Registered: 2021-04-24

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visudo not responding

So I'm trying to add a user to sudoers. I have sudo installed. I enter visud, then hit tab, it autocorrects to visudo, and I press enter. A new line starts. Nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: visudo not responding

Can we see

type visudo

Are you attempting to run the command as root?

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Slithery

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Re: visudo not responding

Do you have vi or vim installed?

What's the output of...

echo $EDITOR

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seth

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Re: visudo not responding

Also, if you run visudo as regular user (not "sudo visudo", but just "visudo") it'll tell you that it cannot access /etc/sudoers and leave you at a new prompt.

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Calimari

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Registered: 2021-04-24

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Re: visudo not responding

Can we see

type visudo

Are you attempting to run the command as root?

I ran it both as root and as a normal user. Nothing works.

And

 type visudo 

outputs

 visudo is /usr/bin/visudo 

Calimari

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Registered: 2021-04-24

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Re: visudo not responding

Do you have vi or vim installed?

What's the output of...

echo $EDITOR

It leaves me at a new line, and I do have vim installed.

seth

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Re: visudo not responding

sudo env EDITOR=vim visudo

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