sudoedit but no cp

Question

I have access to a file /etc/apache/myfile.conf that gets included in httpd.conf.

The permissions are:

-rw------- 1 root root

I have sudoedit permission to the file but not read!

I can open the file, edit it, but I just want to copy the entire content to take back up.

How do I do this?

Do you have regular sudo? – ctrl-alt-delor Jul 15 '16 at 19:43 — ctrl-alt-delor, Jul 15 '16 at 19:43

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '16 at 19:35

4

You can cheat by setting $EDITOR to cat e.g.

EDITOR=cat sudoedit /etc/apache/myfile.conf > copy_of_myfile.conf

answered Jul 15 '16 at 19:35

Stephen Harris

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '16 at 19:33

3

If the only access you have is via sudoedit you could sudoedit the file and write it to a location you do have access to (e.g. /tmp or your home directory):

sudoedit /path/file
:w /newpath/newfile

answered Jul 15 '16 at 19:33

Justin Lake

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sudoedit but no cp

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