trick question about sudo

[Luciano Rocha]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:43:09PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I have one question about sudo.
> 
> While looking for uid/gid override for samba mounts I found this solution:
> sudo echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
> 
> But this obviously doesn't work on Fedora but this works:
> sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled'
> 
> But the trick question is in which setups and which circumstances can
> the first sudo work?

Only when your current user (not the one you're sudoing to) can write
to /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled.

The redirection is made by the shell, before running sudo, so it has to
be able to open the specified file for output.

The example you found is obviously wrong.

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lfr
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