wierd sudo problem?

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Matt Price wrote:
[...]
> echo "hello"
> 
> that works; if on the other hand I type:
> 
> sudo echo "hello"
> 
> I am asked for my password, but then just returned to the command line
> with no action having been taken.  Since there's no root access on the
> machine, I can't just login and explore what's going on,
[...]

You could try,
       sudo -s
also sudo <any shell>, like
       sudo bash
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Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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