[nylug-talk] no sudoedit on RHEL/CentOS

[Ron Guerin]

Chandhee Thala wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
>> Perhaps it's not seen as a security feature? Pretty much every editor
>> lets you spawn a shell
>  
> Peter, I think you misunderstand what sudoedit does. The reason it exists is
> to prevent editors that spawn shells from getting root access.

The name is a poor choice, that's for sure.  It's too much like "visudo"
(though that name sucks even more).

Anyway... in Debian, sudoedit is in sudo-ldap not sudo.  You might find
that RHEL also ships sudoedit in some other package than sudo.

- Ron