Bug 68605

Summary:	visudo fails w/o vim-minimal installed
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	sudo	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-07-11 17:27:49 UTC

# visudo
visudo: no editor found (editor path = /bin/vi)
#

Either sudo needs to Require: vim-minimal (which provides /bin/vi) or visudo
needs to be changed to use `which vi` to locate vi (since it might be /bin/vi,
or it might be a shell alias for /usr/bin/vim, depending on if vim-minimal or
vim-enhanced is used)

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-12 04:04:20 UTC

visudo uses the defined PATH_VI from the system headers as the default, and
should (afaik) honor the EDITOR environment variables for alternate editors.

Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2002-07-12 05:25:58 UTC

It does honor EDITOR (though not VISUAL) if it's set; it's not set by default
for root on RH though

Comment 3 Chris Ricker 2002-08-24 17:01:32 UTC

still true w/ beta5

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2004-01-27 13:44:15 UTC

it took some time, but is finally fixed in Fedora Core 2 (development)