How to let users securely edit files using sudoedit | Linux Today

How to let users securely edit files using sudoedit

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Himanshu Arora
Feb 25, 2017

Suppose you are a system administrator in a company where teams mostly work on Linux with limited privileges. Now imagine a situation where members of one of the teams – as part of some new work – need to frequently edit a file that requires superuser privileges. What would you do?

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Himanshu Arora

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