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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem |
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> is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an |
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> error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as |
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> sudo goes). Which means that I have to su anyway, to echo to the file, |
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> which really isn't the point of the exercise. |
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> As I see it, this error can mean only one of two things: |
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> sudo does not give me a login shell (so my UID is 'really' still my UID |
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> and not root's, and I don't have permission to write to the file); or |
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> there is another, "invisible" cli utility responsible for actually |
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> writing to the file, which is not sudo-ed. |
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If you're using e.g. "sudo echo package >> /etc/portage/package.unmask" |
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then the redirection takes place in your shell, not in sudo. |
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HTH. |
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