On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:43:09PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Hi, > I have one question about sudo. > > While looking for uid/gid override for samba mounts I found this solution: > sudo echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled > > But this obviously doesn't work on Fedora but this works: > sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled' > > But the trick question is in which setups and which circumstances can > the first sudo work? Only when your current user (not the one you're sudoing to) can write to /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled. The redirection is made by the shell, before running sudo, so it has to be able to open the specified file for output. The example you found is obviously wrong. -- lfr 0/0
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