[Server-devel] Fixing bash script bogosity - help?
pgf at laptop.org
pgf at laptop.org
Tue Apr 28 12:20:08 EDT 2009
martin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
> >> $ su root -c '/bin/echo "$@"' /bin/echo one two three
> >
> > Interesting - seems to work as
> >
> > runuser root -c '/bin/touch "$@"' /bin/touch "one two" "thre\"ee"
> >
> > but for some reason it doesn't work on my script. Any ideas on how to
> > apply this to the runuser line on the ejabberdctl script?
>
> The plot thickens.
>
> Both sudo and runuser do pass parameters to the shell, but no
> parameter that looks like an option is accepted. So
>
> # this works
> runuser root -c '/bin/touch "$@"' /bin/touch "one two" "thre\"ee"
> # this does not work -
> runuser root -c '/bin/touch "$@"' /bin/touch "one two" -d
but this does:
$ su root -c '/bin/touch "$@"' -- /bin/touch "one two" -d
Password:
/bin/touch: option requires an argument -- 'd'
is there a reason to use runuser? it doesn't look like it's
being used for anything su can't handle.
paul
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paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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