On Dec 6, 2003, at 9:22 PM, Michael Havens wrote:

>
> Sorry George, I don't quite get what you mean. I just figured visudo 
> is a
> special vi sudo but I couldn't remember my vi studies.

It is special. It does some simple validity checks on the modified 
sudoers file before saving it. I also can't vi but it took me only 5 
minutes to learn enough to use visudo.