On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harry Putnam wrote: > I didn't notice anything in man sudo to explain why globbing doesn't > work using sudo. At least in this instance > > as root > ls /root/inst* > /root/install.log /root/install.log.syslog > > as user > > sudo ls /root/inst* > ls: /root/inst*: No such file or directory Hi Harry, it works. But the command line is expanded when you issue it, and at that time you are still a regular user and don't have privileges to read /root. If otherwise, it would be a hole to read the contents of a directory a regular user doesn't has read permission for. Cheers, Michael -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
