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

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:09:29AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:  

> > > $ 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.

Of course you could, but if you're able to run sh what prevents you from using it to run anything else?

Regards,
Andrei

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