[sudo-users] tar fails on gzip or bzip compression
Joe Friedeggs
friedeggs44 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 25 10:14:08 EDT 2012
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:23:23 CDT, Joe Friedeggs wrote:
>
> > I am having issues with 'tar' command when compression (gzip or bzip2) is use
> > d. The users have sudo access to:
> >
> > /bin/tar *
> >
> > but this fails when the gzip (or bzip) options is selected. For example:
> >
> > > sudo /bin/tar ztvf testthis.tar.gz
> > /bin/tar: gzip: Cannot exec: Permission denied
>
> Do you have NOEXEC enabled for that command? If so, that would
> explain the problem since tar would be unable to execute gzip or
> bzip2.
>
> - todd
Thanks, Todd, was banging my head on this one, but since you pointed it out, it make perfect sense. I separated my 'exec' and 'noexec' commands a couple of months ago, guess I put tar in the wrong group.
Joe
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