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When you realized you forgot sudo (lemmy.world)
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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

sudoedit is more secure btw. Many editors are not built to be ran as root, and this copies the file to a temo directory, edits it without root, and then overwrites the original file on save with root.