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Operating Systems AIX issue with cd command on sudo Post 302582927 by gito on Monday 19th of December 2011 04:12:13 AM
Old 12-19-2011
Lats try different question what is your expected result ?

I do not see any reason why to use sudo cd.
Also you need to take in considerations that pwd also needs to have proper privileges to list your current location.
 

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pwd.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							      pwd.h(3HEAD)

NAME
pwd.h, pwd - password structure SYNOPSIS
#include <pwd.h> DESCRIPTION
The <pwd.h> header provides a definition for struct passwd, which includes the following members: char *pw_name user's login name uid_t pw_uid numerical user ID gid_t pw_gid numerical group ID char *pw_dir initial working di rectory char *pw_shell program to use as shell The gid_t and uid_t types are defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getpwnam(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 10 Sep 2004 pwd.h(3HEAD)
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