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List:       sudo-users
Subject:    Re: Problems with sudo and PATHS
From:       "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller () courtesan ! com>
Date:       2002-02-13 16:27:26
Message-ID: 200202131627.g1DGRQTG003638 () xerxes ! courtesan ! com
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That's because sudo doesn't try to parse command line arguments
(other than doing glob expansion).  Sudo has no way to know what
command line argument is or is not a pathname.

 - todd

In message <OF33104362.423CE2FA-ON00256B5F.00402FEB@ft.com>
	so spake  (Benjamin.Cuthbert):

> we have just installed sudo on our solaris 2.8
> and the one problem i have is , that
> 
> if i have sudo ALL
> 
> i am able to to do
> 
> sudo touch /testme
> sudo rm /testme
> 
> but when i have defined a user with permissions to only do rm in
> /opt/customer
> 
> when he does this
> 
> cd /opt/customer
> sudo touch testme
> 
> Access denied
> 
> but if i do
> 
> sudo touch /opt/customer/testme ,
> 
> i am able to do it
> 
> Why ?

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