[SOLVED] Run X11 apps using sudo while following wiki

Question

i was going through the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Su … using_sudo
added the line.
Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
[rho@turion ~]$ sudo visudo
visudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 94 <<<
What now?
Options are:
(e)dit sudoers file again
e(x)it without saving changes to sudoers file
(Q)uit and save changes to sudoers file (DANGER!)
What now? Q
[rho@turion ~]$ sudo
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 94 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 94
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Last edited by rhoit (2012-11-16 11:59:50)

Answer 1

rhoit wrote:
$ pacman -Ss hdparm
$
can't find!
That could be a problem, given that hdparm is in core ...
Anyways, man page: http://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm
(This all is pretty off-topic to the original thread; sorry moderators.  I was merely using it as a rather blatant example of the "Warn the user but do what it is told to do" idea)