Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>>I don't just give myself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands; I
>>made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of utility apps. And, like
>>many of you, I included emerge in this group.
>>
>


>Christoph Gysin schreef:
>  
>
>>
>>$ sudo bash -c "echo package ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords"
>>
>>will run the redirection as root.
>>
>>For stuff like this, I'd recommend you to write simple shell functions:
>>
>>addkeyword(){
>>  sudo bash -c "echo $* >> /etc/portage/package.keywords"
>>}
>>
>>Write them in your .bashrc and their avaible when you need it.
>>
>>Use it like this:
>>
>>$ addkeyword package ~x86
>>
>>Christoph
>>    
>>
>
>Thank you, Christoph!!!!
>
>You have not only saved my sanity, but you've given me a solution to two
>problems you didn't even know I had (it was the next question)! i.e.,
>  
>

BTW Holly,

You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself
to execute bash is really giving yourself "blanket permissions to sudo
to all commands".  You might as well make life easier on yourself and
just make your sudo settings "ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL".

My $.02.

-Richard

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