[sudo-users] Problem with CD command while using sudo
Russell Van Tassell
russell+sudo-users at loosenut.com
Fri Jul 29 02:50:25 EDT 2005
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:51:07PM +0530, Mousumi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed sudo in one of the machines and configured various groups.
> In the visudo file, cd is listed as the command which
> can be used by all the groups. When executed cd under sudo, change directory
> does not happen. No error is reported, but the
> directory does not change. Any thoughts on how to resolve this issue?
In some shells, cd is an instrinsic, and in others it is a shell script
which simply changes the cwd variable or some other PFM. Why, however,
would you need to make cd a "sudo" command? Wouldn't "ls" or something
else be a little more useful? (someone that cd's in to a directory that
they aren't normally able to still won't be able to read it - so it's
pretty useless, IMO)
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Russell M. Van Tassell
russell at loosenut.com
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