visudo

[James Mcphee]

sudoers.tmp is the lock file visudo uses to make sure there aren't multiple
edits going on at the same time.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to add my user to 'sudoers'. After I do I press cntrl-X and it
> says the file it is going to save is 'sudoers.tmp' . So I save it like that
> and my user still requires a password. should I not save it as the .tmp
> file but rather as 'sudoers'. I don't remember it being like that last time
> I did this!
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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James McPhee
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