redirecting out of a command invoked by sudo fails

[Mikkel]

On 06/25/2010 01:38 PM, JD wrote:
> cd /var/lib
> sudo tar cjf - rpm > rpm.tar.bz2
> sh: rpm.tar.bz2: cannot create [Permission denied]
> 
> My username is in /etc/sudoers:
> jd      ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
> 
> Yeah... I know it is not safe to set NOPASSWD and all that...
> but that is not why I am asking about.
> 
> Is this an established legacy behaviour of sudo?

Dumb question - does your user have write permission in the
directory you are trying to create rpm.tar.bz2 in?

Or am I misunderstanding what you are trying to do, and you want
rpm.tar.bz2 to be owned by root?

Mikkel
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