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    Should 3 be inversed? Presumably you are prevented from editing if you do NOT have write permissions to the directory, right? Not if you do? Commented Aug 9, 2022 at 16:57
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    #3 is straight from the man page of sudo, and I verified it on a CentOS 9 Stream VM. I'm not sure what the rationale is. Commented Aug 9, 2022 at 17:22
  • That's... strange but you're absolutely right. Confirmed on an Arch Linux box too. I was sure it was just a typo, but no. How weird. Thanks for checking! Commented Aug 9, 2022 at 17:26
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    @terdon unix.stackexchange.com/questions/356142/… leads to bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707. Commented Aug 10, 2022 at 2:51
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    @muru Thanks for the research! That makes a ton of sense now, but is obscure without context. This information (or at least links to the bug reports, or an extended page) would probably be a good addition to the man page. Commented Aug 10, 2022 at 15:20