Writing a wrapper

garric · #1 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

Hi everyone,

I have this custom sudo package over which I want to write a wrapper using PERL. The wrapper will do some pre-work and then call the regular sudo package from within itself. But I am facing a peculiar problem here.

Once invoked, I am able to do the pre-work from within the wrapper but after that I invoke the regular sudo which is supposed to prompt for a password and then change into a new shell for the sudo'ed user. But when I invoke sudo from within the wrapper, a password is prompted but changing of a shell will not take effect. How can I overcome this?

Regards,
garric

jlliagre · #2 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

It might be a bug or a design issue in your wrapper.

It's hard to tell without any code of yours.

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