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You shouldn't really use editor with sudo, but instead use sudoedit to edit files restricted to root user
SUDO_EDITOR=nano sudoedit /etc/fstabThis accomplishes the same function while running the text editor as unprivileged user
Why?
Files from user: nano
Files from root: sudo nano
Files from another user: sudo nano (and if new sudo chown after)... 😂
Never had any problems with this in over 10 years... 😅😂
Doing
sudo nanowill not load your user configuration,sudoeditwill. I had plenty of problems with this, but I assume you don't have any custom configuration.One reason why sometime I don't do sudoedit is that I make a lot of changes to the config/restart service/see it works/edit etc.. sudoedit only write to the file when exiting, so that flow won't work...
for example when having adding a new host on nginx and some configuration and see if everything work (sudo vim/systemc nginx restart/curl https:// domain loop)
but yeah in general i'll just use sudoedit (which alias to se for me) for my root editing