Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:07:33 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudo syntax Message-ID: <20040826230733.GA94453@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826223449.GF6896@asu.edu> References: <20040826223449.GF6896@asu.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004, David Bear wrote: >I want to run a command > >tar czf - / | ssh id@somehost dd of=tarball.tgz > >I need to run tar as root. However, I need to run ssh as user 'id'. > >I tried > >sudo tar czf - / | ssh id@somehost dd of=tar.tgz > >but am unsure if ssh was launched as 'id' or as root. Everthing to the left of the pipe symbol is one process (e.g. sudo), the process to the right is independent of that, and will run as the normal user. >Any way to be certain that sudo is doing what I want? You could do something like this if you want to see it which would display the output of id before starting the right side ssh command. sudo tar czf - / | ( id ; ssh id@somehost dd of=tar.tgz ) Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It is surprising how much new stuff users find that developers never do. You put a copy in front of a normal user and they find all these bugs that you would think developers would find. The real users and developers are completely different species as far as I am concerned.'' --Linux creator Linus Torvalds
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