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 .\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force
 .\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
 .\" 
-.\" $Sudo: visudo.man.in,v 1.32 2008/11/15 18:34:26 millert Exp $
+.\" $Sudo: visudo.man.in,v 1.34 2009/06/11 20:29:12 millert Exp $
 .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.16 (Pod::Simple 3.05)
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "VISUDO @mansectsu@"
-.TH VISUDO @mansectsu@ "November 15, 2008" "1.7.0" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
+.TH VISUDO @mansectsu@ "June 11, 2009" "1.7.2" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -173,15 +173,19 @@ edited you will receive a message to try again later.
 .PP
 There is a hard-coded list of editors that \fBvisudo\fR will use set
 at compile-time that may be overridden via the \fIeditor\fR \fIsudoers\fR
-\&\f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable.  This list defaults to the path to \fIvi\fR\|(1) on
-your system, as determined by the \fIconfigure\fR script.  Normally,
-\&\fBvisudo\fR does not honor the \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR environment
+\&\f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable.  
+On Debian systems, this list defaults to /usr/bin/editor, which is meant to
+be a system-wide default editor chosen through the alternatives system.
+Normally, \&\fBvisudo\fR does not honor the \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or 
+\f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR environment
 variables unless they contain an editor in the aforementioned editors
 list.  However, if \fBvisudo\fR is configured with the \fI\-\-with\-enveditor\fR
 option or the \fIenv_editor\fR \f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable is set in \fIsudoers\fR,
 \&\fBvisudo\fR will use any the editor defines by \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR.
 Note that this can be a security hole since it allows the user to
 execute any program they wish simply by setting \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR.
+Despite this potential risk, sudo on Debian is compiled with the
+\fI\-\-with\-enveditor\fR flag.
 .PP
 \&\fBvisudo\fR parses the \fIsudoers\fR file after the edit and will
 not save the changes if there is a syntax error.  Upon finding
@@ -211,7 +215,7 @@ exit with a value of 0.  If a syntax error is encountered,
 .IX Item "-f sudoers"
 Specify and alternate \fIsudoers\fR file location.  With this option
 \&\fBvisudo\fR will edit (or check) the \fIsudoers\fR file of your choice,
-instead of the default, \fI\f(CI@sysconfdir\fI@/sudoers\fR.  The lock file used
+instead of the default, \fI@sysconfdir@/sudoers\fR.  The lock file used
 is the specified \fIsudoers\fR file with \*(L".tmp\*(R" appended to it.
 .IP "\-q" 12
 .IX Item "-q"
@@ -243,12 +247,12 @@ Invoked by visudo as the editor to use
 Used by visudo if \s-1VISUAL\s0 is not set
 .SH "FILES"
 .IX Header "FILES"
-.ie n .IP "\fI\fI@sysconfdir\fI@/sudoers\fR" 24
-.el .IP "\fI\f(CI@sysconfdir\fI@/sudoers\fR" 24
+.ie n .IP "\fI@sysconfdir@/sudoers\fR" 24
+.el .IP "\fI@sysconfdir@/sudoers\fR" 24
 .IX Item "@sysconfdir@/sudoers"
 List of who can run what
-.ie n .IP "\fI\fI@sysconfdir\fI@/sudoers.tmp\fR" 24
-.el .IP "\fI\f(CI@sysconfdir\fI@/sudoers.tmp\fR" 24
+.ie n .IP "\fI@sysconfdir@/sudoers.tmp\fR" 24
+.el .IP "\fI@sysconfdir@/sudoers.tmp\fR" 24
 .IX Item "@sysconfdir@/sudoers.tmp"
 Lock file for visudo
 .SH "DIAGNOSTICS"