On 5/3/2011 4:03 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-05-03 15:14:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Not 
> able to use the backuppc account in freebsd]:
>> I'm surprised that sudo doesn't honor the user's shell.
>
> really? It's really not surprising. The semantics of sudo is "allow executing
> /exact/path/to/some/command as user X to user Y, possibly without password",
> not "allow executing<something>  that /some/random/shell would do when you
> type $some_random_string at its prompt", so sudo would use an execve() system
> call, not a user's login shell.

It's surprising to me, because I'd expect it to execute a command as a 
user by doing the same thing as if the user executed the command - which 
is going to depend on the shell parsing it.  That is, the same as su 
with the '-c command' option.  It's not 'some random shell', it's the 
shell the user would use.  But, you are right - it does something different.
>
> P.S.: I fully agree in advance with any responses.

Heh...


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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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