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  • [gentoo-user] Re: Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

    From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Wed Oct 26 19:20:01 2022
    On 2022-10-26, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

    To the sudo developers, the /etc/sudoers file is *SUPPOSED* *TO* /be/ /edited/.

    And editing that file is how I configure sudo. And when an emerge
    update changes /etc/sudoers, the edited file is left as-is and there
    is a message that you need to run etc-update to merge the changes.

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    Grant

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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Dale on Wed Oct 26 23:30:01 2022
    On 2022-10-26, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
    Rich Freeman wrote:
    If you use an x11-based merge tool then it will also refuse to attempt
    an automatic
    merge if X11 isn't available. (Obviously you can't actually run the
    manual merge if the tool uses X11 and that isn't available.)



    I'd like to try a GUI based tool.  Is that what you talking about?  If
    so, name or what package has it?

    At one point, I had one of my systems configured to use "meld" when I
    picked "interactive merge" in the etc-update menu, but I've since gone
    back to just picking "show differences" in the etc-update menu, then
    manually running merge on the two filenames shown. With the
    interactive merge option, I was always a bit confused about which file
    was the destination and what happened after I exited meld.

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    Grant

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  • From Rich Freeman@21:1/5 to grant.b.edwards@gmail.com on Thu Oct 27 02:00:02 2022
    On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 5:26 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2022-10-26, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
    Rich Freeman wrote:
    If you use an x11-based merge tool then it will also refuse to attempt
    an automatic
    merge if X11 isn't available. (Obviously you can't actually run the
    manual merge if the tool uses X11 and that isn't available.)



    I'd like to try a GUI based tool. Is that what you talking about? If
    so, name or what package has it?

    At one point, I had one of my systems configured to use "meld" when I
    picked "interactive merge" in the etc-update menu, but I've since gone
    back to just picking "show differences" in the etc-update menu, then
    manually running merge on the two filenames shown. With the
    interactive merge option, I was always a bit confused about which file
    was the destination and what happened after I exited meld.


    I use cfg-update+meld. It can use any 3-way diff/edit tool, but there
    aren't many of those.

    I believe the three panels show:
    Left: the current config file
    Right: new new packaged config file
    Center: what the packaged config file was the last time you did an update

    So Left vs Center shows you what changes you've made vs upstream, and
    center vs right show you what changes upstream made to their file. So
    you would look for differences on the right side to see what needs
    attention in the file, and then work those changes if appropriate into
    the left file.

    You just edit the left file to get it the way you want it and save
    that, and then cfg-update captures the changes in RCS.

    --
    Rich

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