[sudo-users] Allowing command through pipe only

[Paul Cantle]

You could probably do it by allowing wc instead as the first command. 

Perhaps

sudo wc -l /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Might work.

On 2 Jan 2013, at 14:58, "Aaron Lewis" <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Say I want to grant user only the permission to run (only count how
> many lines in the output),
> 
> iptables -L | wc -l
> 
> But to accomplish that, I will have to grant the permission to run this command:
> 
> iptables -L
> 
> That's not secure enough, 'cause user can view the rules now, any thoughts?
> 
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