saivin

Hi,
I have a strange problem with 'sudo'. In my system (if it is not universal feature) I cannot read '/etc/make.conf'. It says 'Permission denied'. I then tried to read with 'sudo' command. But even for 'sudo' it gives the same error. I then did a 'su'. With root login I could read the file.

So, my question is, is 'sudo' any less privilaged than 'su' inspite of assigning ALL=(ALL) ALL to my 'sudo' account?

I tried googling but no help with my problem. Can any of you simulate it on your gentoo system and confirm please?

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hazel

You should be able to read make.conf without using sudo. My make.conf has permissions rw-r--r--. Have you tried doing to find out what the permissions are?

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saivin

No, my problem is not reading the file. My interest is to know how/why 'sudo' and 'su' behave so differently when ALL=(ALL) ALL is set for the sudo account. With that permission, sudo is same as root isn't it? How come I cannot read a file (even if system file) with sudo?

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Jonathan183

what does report?

saivin

saivin@SV-V1400 ~ $ sudo -l
User saivin may run the following commands on this host:
    (ALL) ALL

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saivin

Ok, ok, now its working. I'm able to read the make.conf with 'sudo' too. Don't know what happened. The otherday it was not opening and today its working... strange...

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