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Linux copy command

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For example I have two users A and B and A has admin privileges.

I am logged in as B and I want to know how can I copy /etc/sudoers in B home directory in a single command and after /etc/sudoers is copied it must be owned by B user by default , without using chmod, chown.

I hope I made myself clear.

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answered 2 Years ago njuash · Accepted Answer

If you don't want to use chown or chmod, you can use one of the following methods (in any case you need to have root privileges to read /etc/sudoers file):

sudo cat /etc/sudoers > ~/sudoers

or:

touch ~/sudoers

sudo cp /etc/sudoers ~/sudoers

In both cases, after ~/sources file is created, is owned by the current user.