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Edit Sudoers File – visudo

1) Open the sudoers file safely:
visudo command edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion.
Attention: you can only run visudo as root
This is a vi editor. Here are some basic vi commands:
To enter vi insert mode: i
To enter vi command mode: [esc]
To exit vi and save changes: ZZ or :wq
To exit vi [...]

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