On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 20:48:12 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2024, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > sudo fails with a permission denied error. > > > tmb@hp-debian:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4 > > > bash: /etc/iptables/rules.v4: Permission denied > > > > "sudo" only modifies "iptables-save", and not the redirect (it happens > > as your user, *before* the invocation of sudo, as I recall). > > Correct. Redirects are done by the shell, not by the command the shell > executes. The command inherits the redirection. > > > You'll need something like this, so that rules.v4 is opened as root > > rather than your user: > > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables-save | sudo tee /etc/iptables/rules.v4 > > Or: > > sudo sh -c '/usr/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4' > Thanks that works! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
