Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote:  

> I've just read the manpage of sudo, and here's what it says :
>
> To make a usage listing of the directories in the /home partition. Note that
> this runs the commands in a sub-shell to make the cd and file redirection
> work.
>
> $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * │ sort -rn > USAGE"
>
> So, you can do it in on command, sudo is lauching a shell, which is
> responsible of redirections, pipes, chaining commands...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this defeats the purpose of restricting sudo to a certain set of commands.

Regards,
Andrei

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