[sudo-users] appending to a root owned file.

[Galen Johnson]

You may want to edit your script to copy /etc/hosts to /tmp, modify the file in temp then copy it back to /etc using sudo...sudo doesn't do pipes or redirects...

=G= 

-----Original Message-----
From: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com [mailto:sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com] On Behalf Of DBSMITH at OhioHealth.com
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:54 AM
To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: [sudo-users] appending to a root owned file.

All,

I was looking in the archives and found some data related to what I want to
accomplish, but not quite.
It told me to :

% sudo sh -c 'echo foo >> /var/log/bar'

With a sudoers entry like:

dude         somehost = /bin/sh -c /bin/echo foo >> /var/log/bar


but what I want is to append to /etc/hosts using sudo from with a script
that holds variables.
For example,

dev=172.25.123.123
loc=ISF
id=prt207

sudo echo $dev"\t"$id"\t""#" $loc >> /etc/hosts

but this is given me permission errors.
so then I tried:

sudo sh -c 'echo $dev"\t"$id"\t""#" $loc >> /etc/hosts'
with the line in my sudoers file  /usr/bin/sh -c

I am running 1.6.6
Any ideas?


thanks,  derek

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