Re: Tab doesn't autocomplete filename if only root can access it, even if I'm using sudo.

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/13/20 3:49 AM, Tomas Zubiri wrote:
> Hello, consider the case where I'm trying to read the contents of
> /var/log/lighttpd/error.log, in order to do so I must use sudo.
> 
> I can use tab to auto complete most of the path except for the filename,
> because it's protected. At this point, I might believe that the file
> doesn't exist, because I use tab to query directory contents, and I'm using
> sudo so I disregard file permission issues.

Yeah, you might want to disregard them, but until you authenticate and
sudo executes setuid(), you can't read the directories in the path. There's
no way to get around that without skipping the authentication step in
some way.

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