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What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu?

What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu ?
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Do I have to do a new installation?

I was in the /etc/sudoers and might done something wrong, beacuse after I couldn“t use the commandline again. Maybe i deleted sudo in /etc/sudoers. It said something was wrong i line 28. What can I do ...
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How disable mysql command in sudoers file?

How can I disable /usr/bin/mysql command in sudoers file? I've tried to use it this way: %tailonly ALL=!/usr/bin/mysql But when I access user 'tailonly' of group 'tailonly', this command is still ...
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Is there a GUI to `visudo`?

Quite simply, is there a GUI to visudo I can recommend to other users, and use for myself? I have to set up a system where over 50 users have different sudo privileges and I need to juggle them all.
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How to sudo visudo without a password, remove all prompts for password [closed]

Websites tell me to use sudo when I have no password, usually tell me one of two things. It is bad security Or use 'sudo visudo' and the %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL line I would like to not ...