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

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 01:58:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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.

The command here is 'sh', so this could be restricted as usual.

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu


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