Re: Adding support to sudo to open a file with elevated privileges

Piotr Dobrogost <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Sep 2021 17:42:41 +0200

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On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 3:08 PM Daniele Palumbo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I believe that the main side effect of cat is, in a least privilege model configuration, that you need to allow cat without argument.
> Tee is using an argument as output file.

This makes me wonder why doesn't cat have an --out option which would
solve the problem with having to redirect standard output when using
tee:

echo "something" | sudo cat --out /etc/config_file


Best regards,
Piotr Dobrogost
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