So now if I try the whole process from the beginning again, after inserting
sudo visudo "/private/etc/sudoers.d/$LOGNAME" + password enter + R
I'm seeing this error.
Any idea what is it about?
This is basically complaining that the previous two attempts were not ended successfully.
(I'll spare you a rant about vim being a stupidly user-hostile default in 2025.)
I would delete the files thusly:
sudo rm /private/etc/sudoers.d/.mac.tmp.swp
sudo rm /private/etc/sudoers.d/mac.tmp
then I would edit the file using pico:
sudo pico "/private/etc/sudoers.d/$LOGNAME"
which should look something like this:
Then paste in the two lines:
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: chown -R mac:staff /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: chmod -R 755 /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
so now it should look like this:
Then press CONTROL+X (not Command ⌘)
Press Y to confirm you want to save the changes
and then press Enter/Return to use the file name shown.
Thanks for your help—I really appreciate it.
I kind of lost you in the beginning. Could you let me know what files I should delete and how to do that?
Suppose now I'm at the same error window.
Get out of the error window and enter these two lines in Terminal, they will delete the errant files:
sudo rm /private/etc/sudoers.d/.mac.tmp.swp
sudo rm /private/etc/sudoers.d/mac.tmp
