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

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>Richard Fish schreef:
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>>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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>Thank you for the heads-up, Richard, but it would seem that that isn't
>quite true-- I did a test:
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> sudo bash -c /etc/init.d/samba restart
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Remember that the -c option for bash is a single argument, not the rest
of the line.  The 'restart' is being seen as a separate argument to
bash, not as part of the command for bash to execute, if that makes any
sense!  It will work if you do:

sudo bash -c "/etc/init.d/samba restart"

-Richard

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