On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 01:58:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > I've just read the manpage of sudo, and here's what it says : > > > > To make a usage listing of the directories in the /home partition. Note > > that > > this runs the commands in a sub-shell to make the cd and file redirection > > work. > > > > $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * ??? sort -rn > USAGE" > > > > So, you can do it in on command, sudo is lauching a shell, which is > > responsible of redirections, pipes, chaining commands... > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this defeats the purpose of > restricting sudo to a certain set of commands.
The command here is 'sh', so this could be restricted as usual. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
