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Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!



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.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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