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May 14, 2015 at 21:00 vote accept mdjnewman
May 13, 2015 at 7:45 answer added mdjnewman timeline score: 4
May 12, 2015 at 23:57 comment added mdjnewman Thanks - will try out some combination of the method from the link above and using ed.
May 12, 2015 at 23:54 history edited mdjnewman CC BY-SA 3.0
Original comment about permissions was incorrect - `cat` was running as my user, not as bob.
May 12, 2015 at 23:41 comment added glenn jackman Oh, well, use ed which is easily scripted.
May 12, 2015 at 23:15 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' @glennjackman You can use whatever editor you like. The point of sudoedit is that the editor runs as you, but works on a temporary file, then sudoedit moves the content to the real file.
May 12, 2015 at 11:36 comment added glenn jackman You can't even specify the editor, that's configured. You'll have to talk to your administrator to get more privileges.
May 12, 2015 at 11:17 comment added mdjnewman Thanks @heemayl, but I don't have rights to sudo anything as 'bob' - sudoedit for that particular file is literally all I can do.
May 12, 2015 at 11:14 comment added heemayl Check something like sudo -u bob bash -c "echo 'spamegg' >> /foo/bar.conf"
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May 12, 2015 at 10:23 history asked mdjnewman CC BY-SA 3.0