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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, ho-- Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I don't just give myself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands; I made a Cmd_Alias group

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

2005-07-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo goes). Which means that I have to su

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

2005-07-06 Thread gentoo
Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : Hey, ho-- Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I don't just give myself blanket

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

2005-07-06 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo goes). Which means

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo goes). Which

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Edward Catmur schreef: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo

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

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 16:54 Wed 06 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: OK, you all likely realize that I responded before I had got the three more messages telling me what to do. I'm sure it will work (three people telling you the exact same thing is pretty convincing ;-) ), but what I don't understand is why/how,

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : Hey, ho-- I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of utility apps. And, like many of you, I included emerge in this

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

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:12:18 +0100, David Morgan wrote: Nope, I don't think you can do it with sudo since bash uses whitespace as a separator, so if you do sudo echo foo bar, it'll look for a single command echo foo bar, which is not what you want - you want a command echo with argument foo,

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

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
David Morgan wrote: afaik you can only do it with su -c echo foo bar, which stops bash from doing anything with the or the whitespace to begin with, but then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which gets started by su -c It's kind of annoying, I know, but I don't

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

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: I'm really lost. Where am I going wrong? check my other post. Oh, btw, just remembered-- this is bash 3. Does that make a difference? No. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-07-06 Thread gentoo
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17.21, Holly Bostick wrote: To solve your problem, I would just do: chgrp -R portage /etc/portage chmod -R g+w /etc/portage Well, it didn't work (this to all the respondents). Are you in the portage group? sudo echo 'media-video/xine-ui ~x86'

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: David Morgan wrote: afaik you can only do it with su -c echo foo bar, which stops bash from doing anything with the or the whitespace to begin with, but then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which gets started by su -c It's kind of

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

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Thank you, Christoph Your welcome. Last question on this subject-- is this all just bash scripting (so I can learn about it if I sit and study the abs-guide) or is there someplace else I should check out if I want to learn how to write this stuff myself? Yes, this

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

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
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

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: 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:

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

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: Richard Fish schreef: 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

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

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Or is this not a valid proof that there are some limits left? Not, it's not. A simple sudo bash will give you a root shell. The problem in your example was the missing quotes: $ sudo bash -c /etc/init.d/samba restart Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr

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

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Richard Fish schreef: 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

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

2005-07-06 Thread Manuel McLure
Holly Bostick wrote: So it will. Shoot. Oh, well. Maybe I'll rework this, or I should then ask for: 1) firewall recommendations (personal, as the router has one too; atm I'm liking firestarter) I've been very pleased with Shorewall as a firewall. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I think the problem come from the fact that echo is sudo-ed but the shell redirection isn't. Compare this: su -c echo foo /etc/portage/whatever and su -c echo foo /etc/portage/whatever The first one will succeed, but not the second. Well,