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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:10:41
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0507060958550.1852@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ? by Holly Bostick
1 On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
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3 > Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem
4 > is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an
5 > error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as
6 > sudo goes). Which means that I have to su anyway, to echo to the file,
7 > which really isn't the point of the exercise.
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9 What is in /etc/sudoers?
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11 Either the problem is there or maybe its because in some shells, echo is a
12 built-in command and in others its not (so /bin/echo comes into play).
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Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ? Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>