Bug 138

Summary:	Unable to append to a file in Korn shell
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Phil Freund <pfreund>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.7
Hardware:	Sun
OS:	Solaris 2.x

Description Phil Freund 2004-05-12 14:31:57 MDT

While using sudo from the Bourne or Korn shells on Solaris 8 or 9, I am unable
to append to a file.

Example:

sudo echo foo >> foofile
ksh: foofile: cannot create

The target file may already exist or may need to be created by the command;
either way it doesn't work.

If I actually su to root, this works just fine.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2004-05-12 14:34:26 MDT

Redirection is handled by the shell, not sudo.  If you were to do something like 
sudo ksh -c "echo foo >> foofile" it would work.