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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