Bug 138 – Unable to append to a file in Korn shell

Bug 138 - Unable to append to a file in Korn shell


Summary:	Unable to append to a file in Korn shell

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.7
Hardware:	Sun Solaris 2.x

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2004-05-12 14:31 MDT by Phil Freund
Modified:	2004-05-12 18:34 MDT (History)
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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.