topic Re: ln -s and ln command in Operating System - HP-UX

ln -s and ln command

tom quach_1 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:41:18 GMT

hi all,

instead of running privrun, i did a soft link
#ln -s /usr/bin/privrun /usr/bin/sudo
when run sudo command i got this error below, make a hard link and still got the same error.

$sudo lpfence hp5000 6
sudo: Invalid hard link name to privrun.

Does anyone has any input on this.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Tom

Re: ln -s and ln command

Dennis Handly — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:46:20 GMT

Why are you changing the base name of the link from sudo to privrun?
This is probably what is upsetting it.

Instead you may want to set up a shell alias to rename it.

Or have a script for sudo:
#!/usr/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/privrun "$@"

Re: ln -s and ln command

Suraj K Sankari — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:50:26 GMT

Hi,

Better create aliase for /usr/bin/privrun into sudo
alias /usr/bin/privrun sudo

Suraj

Re: ln -s and ln command

tom quach_1 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:57:04 GMT

Thanks Dennis & Sura,

Both work good.
the reason for the change because users had been using sudo for a long time and now on 11.31 i want to use RBAC. now instead of telling them to replace sudo with privrun
i just change the name of privrun to sudo
Regards,
Tom

Re: ln -s and ln command

tom quach_1 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:57:33 GMT

Thanks,