strange sudo

[Alfred Vahau]

Thanks. It works. Additional typing but not comprising security.

Alfred

Olafur Arason wrote:

>This is a problem with how the shell works, it is translated into:
>execute cat with sudo then the out put of that execution is streamed to
>file but it is written as the user.
>
>You can use sudo sh -c "the comannd>thefile"
>
>Olafur Arason
>2005/12/11, Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg>:
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>>Hi,
>>I wanted a scratch file in /usr/local so I issued cat > temp.txt.
>>Access was denied. So I had to open a root terminal to create the file.
>>sudo normally works for me.
>>
>>What gives?
>>
>>Alfred,
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