Bug 1565970

Summary: cat /ostree/repo/refs/heads/ostree/0/1/0 > /etc/file1 failed
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: lnie <lnie>
Component: rpm-ostreeAssignee: Colin Walters <walters>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: adimania, amurdaca, bbaude, dustymabe, dwalsh, fkluknav, jonathan, lsm5, miabbott, walters
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Description lnie 2018-04-11 08:11:04 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm running this testcase
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Roshi/QA/AtomicTests/Atomic_Upgrade

[fedora@atomic01 ~]$ sudo cat /ostree/repo/refs/heads/ostree/0/1/0 > /etc/file1
-bash: /etc/file1: Permission denied

On a normal f28 server system,the command succeed as usual.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora-AtomicHost-28-20180410.n.1.x86_64.qcow2.1

How reproducible:
always

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Comment 1 Dusty Mabe 2018-04-24 14:54:56 UTC 
hey Inie. Thanks for the bug report. This isn't a bug, though as the write to '/etc/file1' in the command you are running is not privileged (i.e. it's not part of the sudo command). 

If you were running as root this would work:

```
[vagrant@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]$ sudo su -
[root@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]# whoami 
root
[root@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]# cat /ostree/repo/refs/heads/ostree/0/1/0 > /etc/file1
[root@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]# echo $?
0
```

It would also work if you included the redirect in the sudo command:

```
[vagrant@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]$ whoami
vagrant
[vagrant@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]$ sudo su -c "cat /ostree/repo/refs/heads/ostree/0/1/0 > /etc/file1"
[vagrant@vanilla-f28-atomic ~]$ echo $?
0
```

closing for now as notabug
Comment 2 Micah Abbott 2018-04-24 15:00:39 UTC 
I've updated the linked test case to clearly indicate to use a privileged user when writing to /etc
Comment 3 Dusty Mabe 2018-04-24 15:07:02 UTC 
(In reply to Micah Abbott from comment #2)
> I've updated the linked test case to clearly indicate to use a privileged
> user when writing to /etc

thanks micah