[sudo-users] sudo problems with internal shell command

[Battersby-Cornmell, Robin Alasdair]

You will find that the first statement run the echo as super user, but it is the normal user that is catching the output and re-directing to a file.  In the second example, this is all contained by the super user process and therefore the write to file would work.

You could script it and sudo call the script.




Robin,
Unisys, Liverpool


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Lewis [mailto:aaron.lewis1989 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 February 2010 13:15
To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: [sudo-users] sudo problems with internal shell command

Well , i got some problems with such command:

sudo echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth

Permission is denied.
I think it's because 'echo' is run in shell , as normal user  , then it fails to run.

This works fine:
sudo su - -c 'echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth'

Anyway to solve it ?

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Best Regards,
Aaron Lewis
RedHat Certificated Engineer
SUPINFO UNIV.



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