On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Torbjцrn Цsterdahl! > > > Another oddity is that sometimes(!?) I am not able to set values using > > sudo, i.e. > > sudo echo "1" > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/device/pwm3_stop_output_enable > > It does not matter if I use 'sys/devices/platform' or '/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/' > > I often need to change to a root console first. Since I have not set any > > root password I am using 'sudo -i' which works nicely. > > Having no root password is a bad idea. Depending on the distribution, the result might be that he can not log in as root, but _must_ use sudo instead. If so, it is not too bad. Guenter > And to your issue: Some modern Linux distributions have higher security > policy, which prevent rights inheritance on redirections. > The reason is to have better security in situations, when an unprivileged user > running SUID root programs, such as network diagnostic tools. > > Without this, it's possible to run something like > ping -d -f something > /sbin/init > ...with devastating success. > > To work around such limitation, try > echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/device/pwm3_stop_output_enable > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (hell-for-yahoo@xxxxxxxx) 10.06.2012, <16:47> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
