Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

[Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>]

Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> writes:

> Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit :
>> I was experimenting, and found this works:
>>
>> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello"
>>
>> It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it
>> without being root even though group and world permissions were read
>> only.
>>
>>
> thats because sudo exceutes a xterm as root
>
> then this xterm executes a shell (as root) and this root shell does
> the redirection.

Yes, but why did it allow me to delete the file? I was not root
then. Try it.