I want to cd
into /var/named
but it gives me a permission denied error, and when I want to use sudo
to do this I am not permitted. What is the technical reason for this, and is it possible to do this some other way?
I want to cd
into /var/named
but it gives me a permission denied error, and when I want to use sudo
to do this I am not permitted. What is the technical reason for this, and is it possible to do this some other way?
The reason you can't do this is simple and two fold
cd
is not a program but an in-built command and sudo
only applies to programs.
sudo foo
means run the program foo as root
sudo cd /path
returns
sudo: cd: command not found
because cd
is not a program.
If it were possible to use sudo to cd
to a protected directory then having run the command sudo cd /var/named
you would be in that directory as a normal user but normal users are not allowed to be in that directory.
This is not possible.
Workaround:
You can use sudo -i
to elevate yourself to super user. For example:
sudo -i
cd /var/named
You are now logged on as root and can use whatever commands you wish. When finished type exit
and you are back to being logged on as a normal user.