[solved] Re: Can't copy /etc/passwd

[Olivier Pavilla]

Le 20/01/2012 14:55, Rashkae a écrit :
> On 01/20/2012 08:11 AM, Olivier Pavilla wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I followed this howto to chroot 32 bits ubuntu distro.
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot
>> But I got a problem.
>> I can't copy /etc/passwd to /32bits/etc/passwd
>> I get this error message:
>>
>> oliviern at korriban:~$ sudo grep "^[^:]*:x:[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]:"
>> /etc/passwd>>  /32bits/etc/passwd
>> bash: /32bits/etc/passwd: Permission non accordée
>> olivier at korriban:~$ ls -lha /32bits/etc/passwd
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 761 2012-01-20 05:49 /32bits/etc/passwd
>>
>> Does anyone have idea?
>>
> 
> Your problem is sudo redirection.  See here:
> 
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Redirection_with_sudo.html
> 
> I'm not at all sure what dance you'll have to do to get quotes working
> within quotes.  Personally, I'm lazy, and would simply use sudo -s to
> open a root level command prompt.
> 
> 

Thank you for this really interesting idea.
After I did sudo -s
It works
grep "^[^:]*:x:[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]:" /etc/passwd>>  /32bits/etc/passwd

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